Book Review: Oxford Specialist Handbooks in Anaesthesia: Ophthalmic Anaesthesia

Oxford Specialist Handbooks in Surgery – Cardiothoracic Surgery

Reading this handbook of " Cardiothoracic " surgery, I am reminded of the Peter Cook & Dudley Moore sketch about the one legged man auditioning for the role of Tarzan: " I love your right leg … I have nothing against your right leg … unfortunately neither do you! " Well, I have nothing against the cardiac surgery side of this book, it is excellent. Unfortunately the Thoracic component is almost...

Anaesthesia for ophthalmic surgery.

Anatomy for ophthalmic anaesthesia.

Study of the anatomy of the orbit, its contents and surrounding structures allows the anaesthetist to understand how to insert needles within the orbit. Local anaesthetics may thereby be deposited in sites where they may spread to block sensory and motor nerves to provide anaesthesia and akinesia, without damaging the globe, blood vessels, lacrimal apparatus, muscles or the optic nerve and its ...

Anaesthesia and ophthalmic surgery.

Dear Editor, The first issue of the Nepalese Journal of Ophthalmology was forwarded to me by one of my anaesthetist colleagues here in the UK. I thoroughly enjoyed reading 2 articles related to my specialty of anaesthesia. Both articles (Bhattarai 2009 and Tuladhar et al 2009) are of very high standard. They and you and the entire team should be congratulated for such a high quality journal. I ...

General anaesthesia in ophthalmic surgery.

MANY ophthalmic operations can be performed under local analgesia and this technique is used with satisfaction in all parts of the world today; in fact many surgeons and consultant anaesthetists are satisfied that the best results are obtained by this method. On the other hand, general anaesthesia is used much more than formerly and in some centres it is used routinely for most operations, incl...