Status:

COMPLETED

Anaesthesia for Ophthalmic Surgery: How "Retro" is the Peribulbar Block?

Lead Sponsor:

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Conditions:

Ophthalmic Surgery

Parabulbar Block

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Brief Summary

Ophthalmic surgery on the posterior section of the eye can either be performed under general anaesthesia or under local aneasthesia. The local anaesthesia is performed by injecting local anaesthetics ...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • informed consent

Exclusion

  • coagulation disorder
  • INR over 1.5 and/or a platelet count less than 75 X 109/L,
  • pathological myopia,
  • inability of the patient to lie down for the operation for more than 2 hours
  • lack of informed consent.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

January 1 2011

Trial Type :

OBSERVATIONAL

Allocation :

ESTIMATED

End Date :

June 1 2011

Estimated Enrollment :

100 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT01258959

Start Date

January 1 2011

End Date

June 1 2011

Last Update

June 9 2011

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Sunnybrook Health Science Centres

Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M4N 3M5