Anaesthesia for Ophthalmic Surgery

This reference text covers anaesthesia procedures for all forms of eye surgery. It provides practical guidelines and has been designed specifically as a source of information for the trainee anaesthetist.

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Anaesthesia for ophthalmic surgery can in certain circumstances stretch the confidence of the most fully trained and skilled anaesthetist. The changing patterns of eye surgery and vitreoretinal surgery, and the increased interest in day-case surgery dictates that anaesthetists should acquaint themselves with various anaesthetic techniques, including local anaesthesia for ophthalmic surgery. The authors of this book have been interested in anaesthesia for ophthalmic surgery for many years. They have drawn on their considerable personal experience in their contributions to this book. They provide a sufficiently comprehensive text for the book to be a reference source for the trainee and a practical manual for those interested in and practising ophthalmic anaesthesia. The book contains nineteen well referenced chapters covering detailed peri-operative management of the ophthalmic patient who is undergoing either general or local anaesthesia. It also contains a short glossary which is hoped to be of use for non-ophthalmologists. The chapters on the anatomy and physiology of the eye contain information not usually included in standard textbooks of anaesthesia.
Certain chapters provide extensive coverage of hitherto underdeveloped topics such as the pharmacology of drugs used in opthalmology and the use of ophthalmological techniques in diagnosing diseases of other parts of the body. This book is intended for anaesthetists and opthalmologists both junior and senior.