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Abstract #5529 Published in IGR 1-2
Sub-Tenon's anesthesia for combined cataract and glaucoma surgery (letter)
Bellucci R; Morselli S; Pucci V; Babighian SJournal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery 1999; 25: 606-607
In this letter to the editor the authors state that sub-tenons anesthesia could replace peribulbar needle injections when combined surgery for cataract and glaucoma has to be performed. They use after two drops of lidocaine 4% and injection of 1.5 ml, 30 ?g of mepivacaine into the sub-tenons space near the superior rectus muscle. They reviewed the charts of the first 50 patients comparing the intraoperative and postoperative complications to those who had been given a peribulbar needle anesthesia. The intraoperative complications did not differ. They therefore feel that sub-Tenon's anesthesia can replace peribulbar injections.
Classification:
12.14.3 Phacoemulsification (Part of: 12 Surgical treatment > 12.14 Combined cataract extraction and glaucoma surgery)
12.17 Anesthesia (Part of: 12 Surgical treatment)
