Balanced Anaesthesia for paediatric Ophthalmic Procedures-Juniper Publishers
Juniper Publishers - Journal of Anesthesia Abstract Background: Paediatric ophthalmic surgery on under general anaesthesia poses several challenges and is quite stressful to the child, parents as well as to the anaesthesiologist. Unfortunately there is a paucity of literature on the subject of anaesthetic management of visually challenged hyperactive children posted for Vitreoretinal surgery [ 1 , 2 ]. Objective: Here under, balanced anaesthesia approach where prolonged paediatric Vitreoretinal surgical procedures are conducted under general anaesthesia as well as the eye block is being evaluated to provide a stress free as well as event free anaesthesia course in children. Methods: Forty children scheduled to undergo a variety of minimally invasive Vitreoretinal surgery [MIVS] under general anaesthesia were recruited under the study and equal number of subjects were randomly distributed under control group and study group. All the children followed a stan...