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Pulmonary oedema after peribulbar block
1Department of Anaesthesia, South Cleveland Hospital, Middlesbrough, UK.
British Journal of Anaesthesia
|October 28, 1999
Abstract:
Local anaesthesia is now preferred for cataract surgery. Respiratory distress caused by pulmonary oedema is a rare, if well recognized, complication of the technique of retrobulbar block. We report this complication after the increasingly favoured peribulbar approach.