Are ocular injection anesthetic blocks obsolete? Indications and guidelines

Article Article scientifique Article Are ocular injection anesthetic blocks obsolete? Indications and guidelines eng 2011 author Mavrakanas Nikolaos 619297 author Stathopoulos Christina 509628 author Schutz James Scott 655095 58-63 10.1097/ICU.0b013e328341426f 21088581 1040-8738 In this era of topical anesthesia for ocular surgery, anesthetic ocular blocks are still important when profound anesthesia and akinesia are required. Although injection ocular blocks, retrobulbar and peribulbar anesthesia, have been supplanted for most ocular surgery in many centers by sub-Tenon's irrigation block because of its superior safety profile, still worldwide, injection blocks remain popular. Anesthesia/methods Anesthetics, Local/administration & dosage Humans Injections, Intraocular Nerve Block/methods Orbit Practice Guidelines as Topic Dewey 616.8 61 Département des neurosciences cliniques 226 false 582 Ophtalmologie expérimentale 925 Current opinion in ophthalmology 22 1 314142b2-2f4e-4fc5-be61-957d27000f17 Article (Published version) Restricted 00055735-201101000-00013.pdf 116354 application/pdf restrictedAccess Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique / Département des neurosciences cliniques

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