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Anesthesia Management During Cataract Surgery
completed: November 1999

Investigators

Oliver D. Schein, MD, MPH
David S. Friedman, MD, MPH
Lee A Fleisher, MD
Lisa H. Lubomski, PhD
Jeffrey Magaziner, MD
Michael Sprintz, MD
John Kempen, MD, MPH
Sherman W. Reeves
Karen A. Robinson, MSc
Eric B. Bass, MD, MPH

Questions
The evidence report focused on the key areas of regional anesthesia, sedation, and patient characteristics. The specific questions were as follows:

  1. What are the risks and benefits associated with use of one form of regional anesthesia over another in cataract surgery?
  2. What are the risks and benefits associated with different approaches to sedating the patient for cataract surgery?

link to summary of report on AHRQ site

link to evidence report on AHRQ site

 


 

  

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