| A Bilateral Blindness following the General Anesthesia . |
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Sung Baik Koh, Tae Suk Kim, II Hyun Ro, Yung Sam Moon |
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Department of Anesthesiology, Han Gang Sacred Heart Hospital, Seoul,Korea. |
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| Abstract |
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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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