Infection Rate Comparison during Transition from Hospital to Office WALANT Enabled by Virtual Reality.

ABSTRACT: We transitioned our hand practice from the operating room (OR) to our office-based procedure room (OPR) to offer wide-awake, local anesthesia, no tourniquet (WALANT). We have established that using wide-awake virtual reality improves patient comfort and anxiety during wide-awake procedures and helps facilitate our patients' choice of venue. We aimed to assess the effect of this transition on infection rates for procedures performed by a single surgeon in the OR versus the OPR.

Methods

A retrospective chart review was performed on a single surgeon's adult patients who underwent elective and closed traumatic upper limb surgeries. A surgical site infection was defined as superficial or deep, based on clinical examination conducted by the surgeon, and was treated with antibiotics within

SUBMITTER: Oakes TC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9187176 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature