Comparing Ropivacaine and Bupivacaine in DTFNB Anesthesia in Patients Undergoing Phacoemulsification

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2016-12-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Deep topical fornix nerve block anaesthesia is now a known form of nerve block for cataract surgeries by phacoemulsification. In this study the investigators intend to compare ropivacaine and bupivacaine in various parameters during phacoemulsification.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Government Medical College, Haldwani
• Treatments: Anesthetics; Anesthetics, Local; Bupivacaine; Propoxycaine; Proxymetacaine; Ropivacaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Anaesthesiologists Physical Status classification system (ASA I-II) to undergo planned cataract surgery by phacoemulsification.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Younger than 50 years,

• Had any psychiatric illness (including significant anxiety),

• Nystagmus,

• Insufficient pupil dilatation,

• Very hard cataracts (NS 4-5),

• Allergy to local anaesthetics,

• Inability to understand language or

• Patient refuses the topical anaesthesia technique