[Safety and efficacy of peribulbar anesthesia in cataract surgery]

Peribulbar anesthesia (PBA) involves the injection of local anesthetic of volume around the globe and outside the fasciomuscular cone, which will then diffuse from the peribulbar space to the retrobulbar space. The goal was to evaluate the safety and efficacy of PBA in cataract surgery in Secondary Ophthalmology Center.

this was a cross-sectional study over two months. Our population consisted of all patients admitted to the anesthesia room, scheduled for cataract surgery and the PBA had been completed. The data was analyzed using Epi Info software version 7.2. The correlations were carried out using Khi2 with a threshold of significance (p <0.05).

A total of 285 patients were included and sex-ratio H/F = 0,72. Average age of 62 +/- 12 years. Lidocaïne 2% and Bupivacaine 0.5% was used in combination at equal volume. The anesthesia was tolerated in 99,3% of patients. We observed 77,19% total analgesia and 13,33% chaemosis.

Peribulbar anesthesia allows the easy realization of cataract surgery with great safety and efficiency.