Evaluation of peribulbar anesthesia for senile cataract surgery at Prince Rashid Hospital

ABSTRACT

To evaluate peribulbar local anesthesia for senile cataract surgery at Prince Rahsed Hospital.Materials and This was a prospective study of patients undergoing senile cataract surgery with peribulbar anesthesia between April, 2001 and April,2002 at Prince Rashed Hospital. One hundred and ninety senile cataract patients who were admitted for cataract surgery were evaluated for local anesthesia. One hundred and seventy two [88 males and 84 females] were found suitable for local anesthesia and were entered into the study. The remaining eighteen patients had surgery under general anesthesia and were excluded from the study.A change to general anesthesia was done in one case. Ninety% of cases had no complication. Complications such as scleral perforation or retrobulbar hemorrhage did not occur.Our study confirms the safety and applicability of cataract surgery performed with peribulbar anesthesia in our setting. Furthermore it solved the problem of those medically compromised patients whose operations were repeatedly delayed due to their unfitness for general anesthesia