Abstract

NARANJO FERNANDEZ, Rosa M.; PONS CASTRO, Lucy; PEDROSO LLANES, Alina  and  PADILLA GONZALEZ, Carmen M.. Sub-Tenon's anesthesia in strabismus surgery. Rev Cubana Oftalmol [online]. 2004, vol.17, n.2, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1561-3070.

A descriptive and retrospective study of 30 patients with the diagnosis of strabismus that were operated on at the Service of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus of "Ramón Pando Ferrer" Ophthalmological Hospital by the technique of sub-Tenon's anesthesia from April 2003 to May 2004 was conducted.The following variables were analyzed: age, diagnostic entity and pain degree. It was found a predominance of the age range 20-39. Esotropia was the most frequent diagnosis. The pain degree was significant in the muscular traction and the sub-Tenon's anesthetic technique proved to be effective independently of the surgical technique applied, without complications and with good analgesia.

Keywords : Sub-Tenon's anesthesia [surgery]; strabismus [surgery].