Korean J Anesthesiol.
1980 Sep;13(3):300-302.
A Bilateral Blindness following the General Anesthesia
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- 1Department of Anesthesiology, Han Gang Sacred Heart Hospital, Seoul,Korea.
Abstract
- Postoperative total blindness was seen in a 48 year old male who had a laparotomy for traumatic perforation of intestine. General inhalation anesthesia of ether-oxygen-mask with semiclosed system was applied after initial ketamine administration. This unhappy ocular complication could be occur secondary to excessive prolonged external compression to eyeballs with mask or/and prolonged postoperative hypotension.
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