Open AccessComplications After Sub-Tenon’s Eye Block
Author(s) -
Heinrich Rüschen,
Fion Bremner,
Caroline Carr
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
anesthesia and analgesia/anesthesia and analgesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.404
H-Index - 201
eISSN - 1526-7598
pISSN - 0003-2999
DOI - 10.1097/00000539-200301000-00054
Subject(s) - medicine , mortise and tenon , blunt , block (permutation group theory) , incidence (geometry) , surgery , anesthesia , ophthalmology , mathematics , structural engineering , engineering , physics , geometry , optics
The use of blunt instead of sharp needles for ophthalmic local anesthesia techniques has reduced the incidence of injury to intra-orbital structures. This case review of complications from blunt needle sub-Tenon's block suggests that sight-threatening or even life-threatening complications can still occur.