Limbal anesthesia for cataract surgery
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Published on: February 15, 2022
M Furuta1, T Toriumi, K Kashiwagi
1Department of Ophthalmology, Suwa Red Cross Hospital, Nagano, Japan.
Abstract:
We present a new technique for the administration of anesthesia in cataract surgery. The technique consists of injecting 0.5 ml of locally-acting anesthetic subconjunctivally (or sub-Tenon's) along the superior limbal border. Using this method, we performed extracapsular cataract extraction (ECCE) with and without posterior chamber intraocular lens (PC-IOL) implantation or secondary PC-IOL implantation on 176 cataract patients. Anesthesia was successfully induced in the majority of these patients and all surgeries were carried out successfully with no major complications. Voluntary eye movements remained but did not interfere with surgery. On the contrary, they helped expose certain surgical sites. This new anesthetic method for cataract surgery is simple and minimizes complications attributed to other blind anesthetic techniques.
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