Surgical excision of the damaged glenoid labrum and removal of the cyst improved the patient’s symptoms.
A surgeon wished to carry out a complex procedure on a patient’s wrist, and asked the anesthesiologist whether the whole arm could be numbed while the patient was awake. Within 20 minutes the anesthesiologist had carried out the procedure after injecting 10 mL of local anesthetic into the axilla. The surgeon went ahead with the operation and the patient did not feel a thing.