In this "Leveling Up" episode of the PRS Global Open Deep Cuts Podcast, Dr. Don Lalonde talks about the new rules for flexor tendon repairs, appropriate intraoperative and postoperative analgesia, and the benefits of wide awake procedures for all types of plastic surgery.

Read, for free, a recent PRS Global Open article by Dr. Lalonde on this topic:

"How to Minimize the Pain of Local Anesthetic Injection for Wide Awake Surgery" by Joukhadar and Lalonde: https://bit.ly/DeepCutsLalonde

Dr. Don Lalonde is a professor in the division of plastic and reconstructive surgery at Dalhousie University in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. In 2009, he became the first Canadian plastic surgeon to be elected to chair the American Board of Plastic Surgery. He is also a Past President of the American Association for Hand Surgery, Past President of the Canadian Society of Plastic Surgeons, and Past Chairman of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC) specialty committee of Plastic Surgery and the examination board in Plastic Surgery. He currently serves as the "Hand" Section Editor for PRS Global Open.

Your host, Dr. Puru Nagarkar, is a board-certified plastic and hand surgeon, and Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

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