Ophthalmic surgery teaching

Teaching corner: Regional anaesthesia for ophthalmic surgery.

Performing safe and effective regional anaesthesia for ophthalmic surgery is an important skill for anaesthetic and ophthalmologic practitioners. Akinetic sharp-needle blocks are generally safe but rare, sight and life threatening complications occur. Sub-Tenon's block using a blunt canula provides akinesa and is a safer alternative but serious complications have been reported. This review prov...

Ophthalmic Surgery

book without padding and covers quite enough oround for those for whom it poses to be written, and it well represents the practice of the present da}7. From its clearness and conciseness, and from the fact that it covers not too much ground but quite enough, we should say that it should rank as one of the best of students' text-books. We see that the authors recognise extraction of the lens in ...

Ophthalmic Surgery

F.R.C.S., and W. A. rrost, F.R.C.S. London: Cassell & Co. 1887. The book before us well maintains the excellent reputation of The Clinical Manuals for Practitioners and Students of Medicine. Our authors are well-known ophthalmic surgeons, thoroughly competent to write upon their speciality, both from large practical experience and from wide literary knowledge of it. This volume is very readable...

Ophthalmic Surgery

Anaesthesia for ophthalmic surgery.