A Bilateral Blindness following the General Anesthesia .
10.4097/kjae.1980.13.3.300
- Author:
Sung Baik KOH
1
;
Tae Suk KIM
;
II Hyun RO
;
Yung Sam MOON
Author Information
1. Department of Anesthesiology, Han Gang Sacred Heart Hospital, Seoul,Korea.
- Publication Type:Case Report
- MeSH:
Anesthesia, General*;
Anesthesia, Inhalation;
Blindness*;
Humans;
Hypotension;
Intestines;
Ketamine;
Laparotomy;
Male;
Masks
- From:Korean Journal of Anesthesiology
1980;13(3):300-302
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
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.
