Special Equipment

• Basic tray

Operating Room Set-up

• Headlight
  
• Loupes

Anesthetic Issues

• Monitored anesthesia care in most cases of simple decompression; regional blocks are preferred by some practitioners and/or institutions
  
• Perioperative antibiotics (first generation cephalosporin)
  
• Pad patient appropriately.

Miscellaneous

• A simple decompression is generally appropriate for all patients as a first procedure; some practitioners prefer to begin with a transposition procedure rather than a simple decompression when preoperative examination reveals an ulnar nerve that translocates out of the ulnar groove during elbow flexion.
  
• If the patient’s condition fails to improve several months following a simple decompression, then a submuscular decompression may be used as a bailout procedure.