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Anesthesia
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Anesthesia used for different incisional surgical procedures
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 Subtenon's Anesthesia
Today, many surgeries of the eye can be performed using techniques that allow your ophthalmologist (Eye M.D.) to use injectable anesthetics to completely numb your eye before your surgical procedure rather than putting you to sleep using general anesthesia. Subtenon's anesthesia is the injection ...
- Subconjuntival Anesthesia
Although many surgeries of the eye are performed using topical anaesthesia techniques, sometimes this is supplemented with injectable anesthetics to completely numb your eye before your surgical procedure. This helps avoid putting you to sleep using general anaesthesia with its increased risks. ...
- Retrobulbar Anesthesia
Today, many surgeries of the eye can be performed using techniques that allow your ophthalmologist (Eye M.D.) to use injectable anesthetics to completely numb your eye before your surgical procedure rather than putting you to sleep using general anesthesia. Retrobulbar anesthesia is the injectio ...
- General Anesthesia
During surgery, an anesthesiologist will put you to sleep so that you do not experience any pain. The combination of drugs and/or gases that puts you to sleep and prevents pain is called general anesthesia. General anesthesia is usually reserved for repair of the eye following major trauma sinc ...
- Regional Anesthesia
Regional anesthesia is a type of procedure that eliminates the pain associated with eye surgery. Instead of undergoing general anesthesia and being unconscious for your surgery, your eye is numbed with eyedrops and your ophthalmologist (Eye M.D.) gives you an injection that often immobilizes you ...
- Peribulbar Anesthesia
Today, many surgeries of the eye can be performed using techniques that allow your ophthalmologist (Eye M.D.) to use just topical drops or injectable anesthetics to completely numb your eye before your surgical procedure rather than putting you to sleep using general anesthesia. If you are not ...
- Monitored Anesthesia Care (MAC)
Monitored anesthesia care (MAC) is a technique that minimizes pain and anxiety during surgical procedures. With MAC, you are not fully sedated as you would be under general anesthesia. This technique, although common for other types of surgery, is rarely used for eye surgery and usually require ...
- Intracameral Anaesthesia
Today, many surgeries of the eye can be performed using minimally invasive techniques that allow your ophthalmologist (Eye M.D.) to give you topical anesthetia with eyedrops and jelly during the surgery rather than injectable anesthetics before your procedure. In some cases, your comfort during ...
- Conscious Care Sedation
Conscious care sedation is a technique that minimizes pain and anxiety during minor surgical procedures while keeping you conscious, able to respond to verbal commands, and able to breathe without assistance. With conscious care sedation, your central nervous system is depressed using intraven ...
- Topical Anesthesia
A topical anesthetic is one that is applied directly to the surface of your eye and affects only the area to which it is applied. Topical anesthesia is usually given in the form of eyedrops or gels, or applied with sponges to the surface of the eye. In some cases, if surgery time will be relativ ...
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