Case report. Pulmonary oedema after peribulbar block

Authors: Kumar C.; Lawler P.

Source: BJA: British Journal of Anaesthesia, Volume 82, Number 5, May 1999 , pp. 777-779(3)

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Abstract:

Local anaesthesia is now preferred for cataract surgery. Respiratory distress caused by pulmonary oedema is a rare, if well recognized, complication of the technique of retrobulbar block. We report this complication after the increasingly favoured peribulbar approach.

Keywords: anaesthetics local; anaesthetic techniques; regional; peribulbar; surgery; ophthalmological; complications; pulmonary oedema

Document Type: Research article

Affiliations: 1: Corresponding author

Publication date: 1999-05-01

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Founded in 1923, one year after the first anaesthetic journal was published by the International Anaesthesia Research Society, the British Journal of Anaesthesia remains the oldest and largest independent journal of anaesthesia. It became the journal of The College of Anaesthetists in 1990. The College was granted a Royal Charter in 1992. Although there are educational links between the BJA and the College, the journal retains editorial independence.