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What Surgeons Should Say During Awake Surgery

Study identifies specific terminology and communication strategies to enhance patient experience in wide-awake hand procedures

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    Wide-awake local anesthesia no tourniquet surgery revolutionizing hand surgery

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    Emphasizes patient communication, satisfaction

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    Deliberate language choices to alleviate patient anxiety

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    Comprehensively covers perioperative process communication

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    Specific recommendations for language during surgery

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    Introduces 'operating table side manners' and recommended changes in communication dynamics

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    Authors declare no competing interests

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What Surgeons Should Say During Awake Surgery

Study identifies specific terminology and communication strategies to enhance patient experience in wide-awake hand procedures

  • by Kerri Miller

  • April 29, 2025

  • 3 min

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