That sounds an awful lot like a peribulbar block. While I perform 90% of my procedures under topical anesthetic, peribulbar anesthesia for routine cataract surgery has great value in certain patients.

That sounds an awful lot like a peribulbar block. While I perform 90% of my procedures under topical anesthetic, peribulbar anesthesia for routine cataract surgery has great value in certain patients.

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Their study, published in the April issue of Ophthalmology, concludes that topical anesthesia falls short of matching the ability of regional anesthesia (including retrobulbar and peribulbar ...

After the investigators performed standard trabeculectomy under peribulbar anesthesia, bevacizumab 1.25 mg was injected using a 30-gauge needle into the subconjunctival space adjacent to the bleb ...