Abstract
Purpose :
To evaluate the efficacy of topical incisional site sub-conjunctival 2% and intracameral 1% lignocaine anesthesia in terms of pain, surgical complications, and visual outcome in manual small incision cataract surgery.
Methods :
Data was prospectively collected for 48 cataract patients treated by a single surgeon at the National Eye Center in Dili, Timor-Leste. Patients received 0.3 ml sub-conjunctival 2% lignocaine and 0.2 ml intracameral 1% lignocaine as anesthesia and Modified Wong-Baker Faces Pain reading scale was used to measure pain score. Patients who had undergone surgery in the fellow eye under peri/retro bulbar or sub-tenon anesthesia were also asked about eye pain during previous procedure.
Results :
Of the 48 patients analyzed, 31 (64.6%) were male and 17 (35.4%) female. The average age of patients was 60.8 years (SD 12.9). Majority of the patients had no pain with a few reporting minor pain. Surgeon’s experience was favorable in terms of patient cooperation, ocular movement, and anterior chamber stability. Over 95% of cases resulted in vision 6/18 or better.
Conclusions :
Topical anesthesia with sub-conjunctival 2% and intracameral 1% lignocaine for manual small incision cataract surgery shows to be promising in this population considering patient comfort, surgeon experience, potential hazards, and visual outcome.
This is an abstract that was submitted for the 2017 ARVO Annual Meeting, held in Baltimore, MD, May 7-11, 2017.