Wide Awake Hand Surgery And The Diagnostic Nerve Decompression

Please see this recently published case report.  Nerve conduction studies have a significant false negative and significant false positive rate (around the 5% range).  Each year we have seen cases where a nerve conduction study result has confounded the diagnosis in a hand surgery patient.  With wide awake hand surgery during which the operation is performed with a #movingsensatehand the concept of a diagnostic decompression arises.  www.onestopwideawake.co.uk