Pulmonary oedema after peribulbar block.
Local anaesthesia is now preferred for cataract surgery. Respiratory distress caused by pulmonary oedema is a rare, if well recognized, complication of the technique of retrobulbar block. We report this complication after the increasingly favoured peribulbar approach.
Kumar
C M
CM
Department of Anaesthesia, South Cleveland Hospital, Middlesbrough, UK.
Lawler
P G
PG
D000208:Acute Disease; D000772:Anesthesia, Local / Q000009:adverse effects; D000779:Anesthetics, Local / Q000009:adverse effects*; D002387:Cataract Extraction; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011654:Pulmonary Edema / Q000139:chemically induced*
D000779:Anesthetics, Local