title: [Eye surface temperature after different techniques of local anesthesia--preliminary report].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To assess temperature on the eye surface after local anesthesia due to phacoemulsyfication.
  
  
  METHODS
  15 patients treated with local anesthesia: peribulbar - 5, retrobulbar - 5 and sub Tenon anesthesia. Mean temperature on both eye surface was assessed with termovision camera (Inframetrics 760) before surgery, 20 minutes and 1 hour after anesthesia.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In all examined groups changes in temperature values in anesthetized and contralateral eye were observed. Significant decrease of temperature was observed after sub Tenon anesthesia.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Eye surface temperature and its changes can be considered as indirect indicator of blood supply and blood supply disturbances after local anesthesia.
authors.affiliation: Kliniki Okulistyki i Rehabilitacji Wzrokowej Uniwersyteckiego Szpitala Klinicznego nr 2 im. WAM Uniwersytetu Medycznego w Lodzi.
authors.forename: Piotr
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Jurowski
authors.forename: Roman
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Goś
authors.forename: Grzegorz
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Owczarek
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000772:Anesthesia, Local / Q000379:methods; D001831:Body Temperature / Q000502:physiology*; D005123:Eye / Q000098:blood supply / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005260:Female; D006439:Hemodynamics / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013508:Ophthalmologic Surgical Procedures; D011300:Preoperative Care; D013997:Time Factors