Sub-Tenon's anaesthesia: Complications and their prevention

Eye

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 694-703

  Kumar, C M ^a   Eid, H ^b   Dodds, C ^b  

^a KHOO TECK PUAT HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

complications; complications of ophthalmic block; eye blocks; ophthalmic blocks; ophthalmic regional anaesthesia; sub Tenon

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; BUPIVACAINE; HYALURONIDASE; LIDOCAINE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; STEROID;

ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CHEMOSIS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONJUNCTIVAL HEMORRHAGE; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LASER COAGULATION; MUSCLE DISEASE; NERVE INJURY; OPTIC NERVE ATROPHY; OPTIC NERVE INJURY; ORBIT TUMOR; PAIN; PERFORATING EYE INJURY; PREVENTION STUDY; RETINA ISCHEMIA; RETROBULBAR HEMORRHAGE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SUBTENON ANESTHESIA; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TENON CAPSULE; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE;

EID: 79958718644     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: 14765454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/eye.2011.69     Document Type: Review

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