[Anesthesia for cataract surgery. Result of a national survey].
OBJECTIVE
In order to evaluate the impact of recent progress in anesthesia and cataract surgery, we conducted a national survey in France to determine which techniques are used.


METHODS
A questionnaire was sent to the most representative French ophthalmology teams: 66 teams participated in the survey.


RESULTS
Seventy-one percent of the surgeons routinely used phacoemulsification: 91% of the anesthesists prefer locoregional anesthesia: contraindications most often involved general health status (89%). Ambulatory anesthesia was preferred by 16.7% of the teams.


CONCLUSIONS
Phacoemulsification under peribulbal anesthesia is currently the technique most frequently used in cataract surgery in France. Ambulatory anesthesia is not yet widely used for this type of surgery.
Lalanne
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Service d'Anesthésie-Reanimation, Service d'Optalmologie, Hôpital Saint-Joseph, Marseille.
Dupont
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Arnoux
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Filippi
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Nizzoli
J M
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Girard de Langlade
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D000328:Adult; D000556:Ambulatory Surgical Procedures; D000758:Anesthesia / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D000765:Anesthesia, Conduction / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D002387:Cataract Extraction / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D002648:Child; D000075202:Contraindications; D005602:France; D006306:Health Surveys; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans
Anesthésie pour chirurgie de la cataracte. Resultat d'une enquête nationale.