To assess how the speed of injection of local anesthetic solutions affected pain of injection, bulbar akinesia and analgesia with retrobulbar anesthesia (RBA).
Methods
70 patients undergoing RBA for cataract surgery were enrolled in a prospective masked trial. They were allocated randomly to receive 5 ml anesthetic solution injected either within 20 seconds (group A) or within 60 seconds (group B). Additionally, akinesia of the orbicularis muscle was created according to O'Brien's technique. The pain of injection was registered on an ordinal analogue scale immediately before and after RBA. The following data were collected before and 20 minutes after retrobulbar injection: eye motility (Kestenbaum test), and corneal sensitivity (0: no sensitivity; 1: sensitivity remaining). Data were also collected on age, sex, and bulbar length, and any side effects of the intervention.
Results
Injection pain did not differ in the two groups. After RBA horizontal and vertical eye motility was slightly lower in group A than group B. Persistent motility was found in 18 patients in group A and 16 in group B. Median horizontal and vertical motility was 0 mm in both groups. Four patients in group A and five in group B had corneal sensitivity persisting after RBA.
Conclusions
This comparison of different injection velocities brought to light no significant differences regarding bulbar analgesia and akinesia after RBA.
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