Clinical Trial: WALANT Versus Local Anesthesia With Tourniquet for Carpal Tunnel Decompression

U.S., June 2 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07617064) titled 'WALANT Versus Local Anesthesia With Tourniquet for Carpal Tunnel Decompression' on May 17.

Brief Summary: This multicenter, randomized, double-blinded controlled trial compared two local anesthetic techniques for open carpal tunnel decompression in adults. The wide-awake local anesthesia no tourniquet (WALANT) technique uses lidocaine with epinephrine and no tourniquet, whereas the conventional technique uses lidocaine only with a pneumatic tourniquet (LA-T). One hundred adults with carpal tunnel syndrome were randomized 1:1 to WALANT or LA-T at two tertiary university hospitals in Egypt. The primary objective was to compare intraope...