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CASE REPORT

Complications After Sub-Tenon’s Eye Block

Department of Anesthesia, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, United Kingdom

Address correspondence and reprint requests to Heinrich Rüschen, FRCA, Department of Anaesthesia, Moorfields Eye Hospital, City Road, London EC1V 2PD, United Kingdom. Address e-mail to HeinrichRuschen{at}yahoo.co.uk

IMPLICATIONS: The use of blunt instead of sharp needles for ophthalmic local anesthesia techniques has reduced the incidence of injury to intra-orbital structures. This case review of complications from blunt needle sub-Tenon’s block suggests that sight-threatening or even life-threatening complications can still occur.

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