Factors affecting patients' pain intensity during in office intravitreal injection procedure

Retina

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 696-700

  Rifkin, Lana ^a   Schaal, Shlomit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

intravitreal injection; pain; topical anesthesia

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; PROXYMETACAINE; TETRACAINE; TETRAVISC; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJECTION; INTRAVITREAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZATION; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; RETINA MACULA EDEMA; RETINA VEIN OCCLUSION; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF REPORT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TOPICAL ANESTHESIA; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANESTHESIA; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAVITREAL INJECTIONS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MACULAR EDEMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PROPOXYCAINE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETINAL VEIN OCCLUSION; RISK FACTORS; TETRACAINE;

EID: 84859105895     PISSN: 0275004X     EISSN: 15392864     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IAE.0b013e3182252ad3     Document Type: Article

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