Jon Peiter Saunte
WASHINGTON — Even when care is taken to perform “gentle” strabismus surgery, patients still have a need for pain relief postoperatively, a speaker at the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus meeting said.
Rather than giving the narcotic sufentanil in those cases, Jon Peiter Saunte, MD, and colleagues at University of Copenhagen studied whether use of oxybuprocaine 0.4% anesthetic eye drops in both eyes postoperatively could reduce the demand for sufentanil.
In a first cohort of 53 pediatric patients who were not given anesthetic eye
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