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Global Translational Medicine Retrobulbar and sub-Tenon’s local anesthesia

Formal analysis: Hanieh Niktinat, Ramak Roohipourmoallai anaesthesia for cataract surgery: Comparison of three
Investigation: Fatemeh Golsoorat Pahlaviani, Samaneh techniques. Br J Ophthalmol. 1993;77(12):771-773.
Bourbour doi: 10.1136/bjo.77.12.771
Methodology: Fatemeh Golsoorat Pahlaviani, Nazanin 7. Stevens JD. A new local anesthesia technique for cataract
Ebrahimiadib, Siva S. R. Iyer, Samaneh Davoudi, extraction by one quadrant sub-Tenon’s infiltration. Br J
Hanieh Niktinat Ophthalmol. 1992;76(11):670-674.
Writing – original draft: Fatemeh Golsoorat Pahlaviani,
Nazanin Ebrahimiadib, Hanieh Niktinat, doi: 10.1136/bjo.76.11.670
Writing – review & editing: Nazanin Ebrahimiadib, Fardin 8. Fahmi A, Bowman R. Administering an eye anaesthetic:
Yousefshahi, Hanieh Niktinat, Samaneh Bourbour, Principles, techniques, and complications. Community Eye
Ramak Roohipourmoallai, Samaneh Davoudi, Siva S. Health. 2008;21(65):14-17.
R. Iyer 9. Adekoya BJ, Onakoya AO, Balogun BG, Oworu O. Current
practice of ophthalmic anesthesia in Nigeria. Middle East
Ethics approval and consent to participate Afr J Ophthalmol. 2013;20(4):341-344.
The questionnaire and methodology for this study were doi: 10.4103/0974-9233.120022
approved by the Human Research Ethics Committee of 10. Klein ML, Jampol LM, Condon PI, Rice TA, Serjeant GR.
Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Written informed Central retinal artery occlusion without retrobulbar
consent was obtained from each of the subjects to hemorrhage after retrobulbar anesthesia. Am J Ophthalmol.
participate in the study. 1982;93(5):573-577.

Consent for publication doi: 10.1016/S0002-9394(14)77371-4
11. Young-Zvasara T, Winder J, Wijetilleka S, Wheeler L,
Written informed consent was obtained from each of the Mcpherson R. Efficacy and safety of a novel blunt cannula
subjects to publish their data. trans-sub-Tenon’s retrobulbar block for vitreoretinal
surgery. Middle East Afr J Ophthalmol. 2019;26(3):163-167.
Availability of data
doi: 10.4103/meajo.MEAJO_151_18
Raw data of this study are available on request from the 12. Buys YM, Trope GE. Prospective study of sub-Tenon’s
corresponding author. versus retrobulbar anesthesia for inpatient and day-surgery

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