The Journal of hand surgery, European volume
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With the increasing popularity of day case surgery it is important to ensure that safe and appropriate techniques are being used. We retrospectively reviewed a large series of 732 patients who underwent planned day case hand surgery under intravenous regional anaesthesia (modified Bier's block) over a 5-year period. We found a modified Bier's block to be ideally suited to day case surgery with no deaths, minimal morbidity and a success rate in excess of 98%.
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J Hand Surg Eur Vol · Oct 1995
Case ReportsIsolated dislocation of all five carpometacarpal joints.
Fracture-dislocation of all five carpometacarpal joints is extremely rare, only ten cases having been reported since 1873. A case of isolated dislocation of all five carpometacarpal joints is presented. A good result was obtained 1 year after open reduction and internal fixation. This case is the only isolated dislocation of all five carpometacarpal joints in the English literature.