Before During After 45 40 TS40 EN35 IT30 PA 26 25 OF 20 16 BER15 MU10 56 4 56 5 4 N 5 3 3 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 000 3 1 1 300 1 20 1 0 0 0/10 1/10 2/10 3/10 4/10 5/10 6/10 7/10 8/10 9/10 10/10 ANXIETY LEVELS Figure 9: Reported anxiety levels before, during, and after surgery Overall Experience 96% of patients felt that, if they needed to have hand surgery again, they would prefer to be wide- awake, 4% would prefer a different method (Figure 10). In terms of the overall experience, 81% felt it was better than what they had expected while 19% believed it was about what they had expected (Figure 1-11). 89% would recommend WALANT to a friend needing hand surgery (Figure 12). Anesthesia Method Expectations 4% 0% 19% 81% 96% About what you expected Better than expected Yes No, I prefer a different anesthesia method Worse than you expected Figure 10: Preferred method of anesthesia Figure 11: Expectations of WALANT Recommendations 9% 2% 89% Definitely Probably Not sure Figure 12: Recommendation of WALANT to a friend Patient Benefits and Economic Value of In-Office 11 Surgery for Hand Procedures
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