Learn Why and How to Perform Regional Anesthesia for Hand Surgery on the Awake Patient

Ultrasound-guided Walant (Wide awake local anesthesia no tourniquet) is getting more and more popular especially for hand surgery. In this Ultrasound Anesthesia Course Video the ultrasound-guided tumescent anesthesia is combined with a median nerve hydrodissection for carpal tunnel release surgery. – Ultrasound-guided Walant is a tumescent anesthesia that involves injecting a relatively large volume of low-concentration, bicarbonate-buffered, lidocaine with epinephrine into the subcutaneous tissue of the surgical site. 

POCUShub expert Dr. med. Olivier Choquet, anesthesiologist in traumatology and orthopedics at the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine Lapeyronie University Hospital, is one of the most searched after educators in regional anesthesia in France.