Impact of Eating vs Fasting on Anxiety and Outcomes After Wide-Awake Local Anesthesia No Tourniquet WALANT Procedures

What this Trial Is About

This research aims to determine whether eating solid food before a wide-awake local-only no tourniquet WALANT procedure affects patient anxiety and other outcomes. The study compares patients who eat before the procedure to those who fast, evaluating anxiety, nausea, satisfaction, and other measures. Researchers hypothesize that eating before the procedure will reduce anxiety and nausea and improve satisfaction compared to fasting. Participants are randomly assigned to either a fasting group, instructed to avoid food after midnight and liquids 4 hours before surgery, or an eating group, told to consume a light meal within two hours before their procedure. All patients undergo the WALANT procedure with standard preoperative care. Follow-up visits occur at 2 and 6 weeks post-procedure, with additional monitoring for complications up to 6 months. During the study, participants provide demographic information and complete assessments including the Amsterdam Preoperative Anxiety and Information Score, pain and nausea scales, and the QuickDASH questionnaire. Vital signs such as heart rate and blood pressure are collected before and after surgery. Satisfaction is measured at the first postoperative visit. Complications are tracked from medical records without extra procedures after the second visit.

Effect of Fasting on Patient Outcomes After Wide-Awake, Local Anesthesia-only, No Tourniquet (WALANT) Procedures