adjustable suture in strabismus surgery is a way to get accurate alignment of the eyes after operation. this technique is used in cooperative patients, being either adults or children. we report the result of this technique in 120 patients, 70 with esotropia and 50 exotropia. the amount of deviation was between 20 and 60 prismdiopters. the patients were mostly adults and teenagers. and the youn...

We evaluated the one-stage intraoperative adjustment strabismus surgery with adjustable suture under topical anesthesia. Medical records of the patients who had intraoperative adjustment surgery under topical anesthesia for horizontal or vertical strabismus in our hospital from March 1997 to March 2003 with follow-up of 6 months were analyzed retrospectively. Of the 71 patients, 48 patients had...

BACKGROUND Postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) is one of the most common adverse outcomes after strabismus surgery. The primary outcome of this prospective, randomized, double-blind study was to compare the incidences of nausea or vomiting, and patient satisfaction of ondansetron and ramosetron after strabismus surgery under general anesthesia. The secondary outcome was to investigate whet...

PURPOSE To produce an internationally valid tool to assess skill in performing strabismus surgery. METHODS A panel of 7 content experts adapted a previously published tool for assessing phacoemulsification by using a modified Dreyfus scale of skill acquisition and providing behavioral descriptors for each level of skill in each category. The tools were then reviewed by 12 international conten...

PURPOSE Oculocardiac reflex (OCR), defined as bradycardia induced by manipulation of extraocular muscles, is a serious complication during strabismus surgery for which prevention and proper management is required. In the present study, we investigated the efficacy of sub-Tenon injection of bupivacaine for prevention of OCR and postoperative pain. METHODS A prospective randomized controlled cl...

to compare the efficacy of acupressure wrist bands, ondansetron, metoclopramide and placebo in the prevention of vomiting and nausea after strabismus surgery. two hundred patients, asa physical status i or ii, aged between 10 and 60 years, undergoing strabismus surgery in farabi hospital in 2007-2008 years, were included in this randomized, prospective, double-blind and placebo-controlled study...