Local anesthesia in ophthalmology
Cernea, D.; Mocanu, C.
Oftalmologia 53(3): 3-14
2009
ISSN/ISBN: 1220-0875 PMID: 19899543 Document Number: 634614
Ocular surgery presents some particularities: local anesthesia continues to be the most utilized and it consists in topical corneo-conjunctival anesthesia and local or regional infiltrative anesthesia. The term of locoregional anesthesia is utilized in ophthalmology for the reason that the two forms of anesthesia could be associated. In this paper the authors insist on different types and methods of anesthesia utilized in ophthalmology and on indications and benefits of each method. There are also presented the incidents and complications of local anesthesia in ophthalmology.