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Published results showed patients who underwent minor hand surgeries under wide-awake local anesthesia with no tourniquet experienced low infection rates and high satisfaction when performed in a hospital procedure room.“Wide-awake local anesthesia with no tourniquet has changed my practice. Also known as wide-awake surgery, it has allowed surgeons to move cases out of the main OR into the
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