title: Peribulbar anesthesia in retinal reattachment surgery.
abstract: We prospectively evaluated the effectiveness of peribulbar anesthesia in retinal reattachment surgery. Of the 24 patients studied, 2 required retrobulbar supplementation during the latter part of the surgery. Our results show that peribulbar anesthesia can be effectively used for retinal reattachment surgery and probably should be the preferred form of local anesthesia for this surgery, since the eyes involved have a relatively high incidence of axial myopia and posterior staphyloma.
authors.affiliation: Dr Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Arora
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Verma
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.forename: H K
authors.initials: HK
authors.lastname: Tewari
authors.forename: P K
authors.initials: PK
authors.lastname: Khosla
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000772:Anesthesia, Local; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009915:Orbit; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012163:Retinal Detachment / Q000601:surgery*; D012591:Scleral Buckling