Randomised, masked study of local anaesthesia administered prior to external dacryocystorhinostomy under general anaesthesia.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To determine whether administration of local anaesthetic at the site of skin incision during open lacrimal drainage surgery under general anaesthesia alters the total dosage of anaesthetic drugs required during total intravenous anaesthesia (TIVA), and whether it alters postoperative pain and recovery.

Study design

Masked comparison of a randomized, two-group interventional study.

Patients and methods

Patients undergoing unilateral external dacryocystorhinostomy under total intravenous general anaesthesia were recruited from the lacrimal service at Moorfields Eye Hospital between September 2012 and February 2014. The patients were randomised to receive, after induction and stabilisation of general anaesthesia, infiltration of the ipsilateral paranasal tissu

SUBMITTER: Scawn RL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6460689 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature