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Start with the patient

If we place the Wide Awake patient at the centre of our pathways and work outwards:

Wide awake patients can can be given more control / ownership over their care
Ownership promotes engagement with their healthcare team
Engagement leads to patients taking more responsibility for decisions about their treatment
Engagement also empowers patients with intrinsic motivation to get the best result for them
Motivation to do rehabilitation well will bring better results
Better results make happier patients and happier surgeons
Better informed patients are potentially less likely to litigate

In an ever-more expensive healthcare world Walant stands out as a beacon of what can be done better with less money:

20ml vial of Lidocaine with 1:200 000 costs roughly £2 / US$2.5
No tourniquet means no anaesthetic team to provide a general or regional anaesthetic
No anaesthetic team means vastly reduced costs in the pathway
Reduced cost potentially means greater incentive to use this method - from insurance, self and national funding bodies
Add in field sterility in an office / minor ops room and costs reduce dramatically

Once we have fewer people in the pathway and more choice about where we operate:

We have more control
With more control our processes can become more streamlined / bespoke / lean
By being lean we can achieve better flow of patients through the pathway
With better flow we can treat more patients, more cost effectively to the same high standards

With better efficiency we can provide better care in a more patient-centred way
With better efficiency income for the institution / clinic / department / surgeon will rise
By being innovative and efficient with potentially better engaged patients our model of care becomes more attractive to commissioners / insurers / self-funders

A major benefit of Walant is choice. You can operate in:

The office / minor ops under field sterility
The office / minor ops under full sterility
The main OR under full sterility - (there is little point operating under field sterility in the main OR!)

Other benefits include:

No pre-operative tests for patient and do not stop medication
No need to stop eating
"It's as convenient as going to the dentist - and more pleasant!"
No need to stop anti-platelet or anticoagulants
No tourniquet therefore no time pressure, less cost and less potential for complications

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