Evaluating Clinical Outcomes for Determining the Optimal Delay to Skin Incision under WALANT: A Prospective Series of 34 Patients from a Low-Resource Tertiary Setting

Table 1

Patient characteristics.

	Total, N = 34
	7-min (n = 17)	30-min (n = 17)
Age (years)	48 (31 to 75)	53 (39 to 75)
Gender
Men	8 (47)	8 (47)
Women	9 (53)	9 (53)
Procedure
Trigger finger release	13 (76)	12 (70)
Carpal tunnel release	3 (18)	3 (18)
Excision of mass	1 (6)	2 (12)
Interval from skin incision to closure (min)	7.5 (6 to 12)	6.8 (5 to 11)
Length of incision (cm)	1.7 (1.5 to 3)	1.7 (1.5 to 2.5)
Preoperative VRS score	1.2 (0 to 2)	1.4 (0 to 2)
VRS score 1-hour postsurgery	0.6 (0 to 1)	0.5 (0 to 1)
Intraoperative blood loss (ml)	8 (3 to 27)	5 (3 to 12)
Perioperative complications	3 (18)	0 (0)

Presented as the mean with the range in parentheses. Presented as the number with the percentage in parentheses.