Factors affecting patient cooperation and level of pain perception during phacoemulsification in topical and intracameral anesthesia

Abstract

Pain perception was positively influenced by female gender, rural place of residence, younger age of patient, and lower preoperative visual acuity. Cooperation with the surgeon was positively influenced by female gender, professional activity, patient good mood before operation, and no pain perception during surgery. There was no correlation between level of education, preoperatively declared pain sensitivity, sequence of operation, and estimated parameters.

Effect of injection site pre-cooling on pain perception in patients attending a dental camp at Life Line Express: A split mouth interventional study

“…The results of the present study support the idea that topical cooling amplifies pain threshold to stimuli such as needle stick during local anesthetic injection and helps patient management during dental procedures. For both the scales the assessed and self reported variables Gender, Location, Chief Complaint, Region and Arch were found to be statistically significant with a higher pain perception in control group than the intervention group The results of the present study are in line with previous studies which have also shown that pain perception was positively influenced by female gender, rural place of residence, younger age of patient [21]. The present study has some limitations too, firstly as the present study was carried out in a dental camp which is flooded with patients and the manpower constraint prevented us to carry out blinding procedure.…”

Effect of sedation on visual sensations in patients undergoing cataract surgery under topical anaesthesia: a prospective randomized masked trial

“…Although topical anaesthesia reduces the fear of needle and pain associated with the injection of local anaesthetic agent, it increases the fear of feeling pain during the operation that might reduce the ability of the patient to co‐operate during surgery. A strong correlation is proved to exist between patients’ pain perception and co‐operation (Omulecki et al. 2009).…”

Macular hole surgery under retrobulbar local anesthesia increases visual acuity

“…(6) Related to the cooperativeness of the patients in ocular surgery, pain perception is positively influenced by female gender, rural place of residence, younger age of patient, and lower preoperative visual acuity. (14) Recovery time under local anesthesia was almost insignificant compared to general anesthesia, and this recovery time may differ between drugs used, (15) or procedures. (16) One of the disadvantages of retrobulbar injections under local anesthesia is the possibility of accidentally penetrating the eyeball.…”