“Can you have hand surgery while awake?”

You can have hand surgery and be awake but it depends on what the surgery is. An open Carpal tunnel surgery or a trigger finger release can be done with local anesthesia alone. If the surgery is more involved, you can have a regional technique, supraclavicular nerve block being my favorite block for surgery of the upper extremity but you can also do an axillary block, an infraclavicular block or a Bier block (intravascular). Most of the blocks I refer to above are isolated brachial plexus blocks with the exception being the Bier block which involves intravenous Lidocaine. Good luck! Best, Beemeth Robles

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