1. Comparison of Topical Anesthesia, Intracameral 1% Lignocaine and Topical Anesthesia and Intravenous Acetaminophen and Topical Anesthesia for Phacoemulsification in Cataract Surgery.
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Munir, Ali Arslan, Rana, Sumbal, Naeem, Saquib, Shahid, Muhammad, Hussain, Aftab, and Hussain, Shafqat
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LOCAL anesthesia ,INTRAVENOUS anesthesia ,PHACOEMULSIFICATION ,CATARACT surgery ,LIDOCAINE ,ACETAMINOPHEN - Abstract
Objective: To compare the effectiveness of topical Proparacaine 0.5%, topical Proparacaine 0.5% and topical Proparacaine 0.5% for intraoperative analgesia and surgeon's score undergoing simple cataract surgery. Study Design: Quasi-experimental study. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Anaesthesia, Armed Forces Institute of Ophthalmology, Rawalpindi Pakistan, from Sep 2022 to Mar 2023. Methodology: Sixty patients aged 40 years and more, ASA-l and ll, undergoing elective simple cataract surgeries were observed by taking 20 patients in all three groups (n=20). Group-T: Topical Anesthesia group, 0.5% Proparacaine Group-I: Topical Anesthesia & Intracameral 1% Lignocaine Group-A: Topical Anesthesia and IV Acetaminophen groups were randomly allocated for pretreatment to either receive the 0.5% Proparacaine Eye drops (Group-T) or 0.5%Proparacaine eye drops with Intracameral 1ml 1% Lignocaine (I group) or 0.5% Proparacaine Eye drops with intravenous Acetaminophen 15ml/kg (A group). Incidence of pain by Visual analogue scale/wong-baker faces scale was noted. The surgeon's comfort was assessed by using Gupta's surgeon score questionnaire. Results: The results showed Group-I had better analgesic score than Group-T with only 1(5%) patient had a score of 4 but even more significant efficacy of intravenous acetaminophen plus topical anesthesia (Group-A) was shown as compared to rest of the groups with none (0%) patient had a VAS score of 4 (p-value=0.002). The results also showed Group-I had better surgeon comfort score than both Group-T and Group-A, with only 1(5%) patient had a score of 7 or above as compared to Group-T, 9(45%) patients and Group-A 7(35%) patients. (p-value=0.005). Conclusion: Intravenous acetaminophen plus topical anesthesia is better at reducing perioperative pain scores as compared to topical anesthesia alone or augmented intracameral Lidocaine plus topical anesthesia. And intracameral 1% Lidocaine injection plus topical is better combination for surgeon comfort perioperative as compared to topical anesthesia and intravenous acetaminophen plus topical anesthesia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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