Wide-awake Flexor Tendon Repair and Early Tendon Mobilization in Zones 1 and 2

Hand Clinics

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 207-213

  Lalonde, Donald H ^a   Martin, Alison L ^a,b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Early active movement; Finger epinephrine; Intraoperative movement testing of tendon repair; Rupture; Tenolysis; Wide awake

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; LIDOCAINE; PHENTOLAMINE;

DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SAFETY; FLEXOR TENDON INJURY; HAND MOVEMENT; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; JOINT MOBILIZATION; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; NECROSIS; PATIENT POSITIONING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RANGE OF MOTION; REHABILITATION CARE; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TENDON RECONSTRUCTION; TENDON SHEATH; TOURNIQUET; VASOCONSTRICTION; WAKEFULNESS;

ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; EARLY AMBULATION; FINGER INJURIES; FINGERS; HUMANS; PAIN MANAGEMENT; PATIENT POSITIONING; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RUPTURE; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TENDON INJURIES; TENDONS;

EID: 84877625560     PISSN: 07490712     EISSN: 15581969     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hcl.2013.02.009     Document Type: Review

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