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Ropivacaine, lidocaine equally effective for deep-topical, nerve-block anesthesia

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Ropivacaine and lidocaine showed similar safety and efficacy for deep-topical, nerve-block anesthesia during cataract surgery in a prospective study.

Bakiye Ugur, MD, and colleagues at Adnan Menderes University in Aydin, Turkey, compared the two anesthetics in 64 patients undergoing clear corneal phacoemulsification. Investigators randomly assigned patients to receive anesthesia involving 1% ropivacaine or 2% lidocaine delivered via sponge.

Researchers found no significant differences in mean self-reported pain scores or postop satisfaction between groups. They also found no significant differences in intraoperative heart rate, blood pressure or peripheric oxygen saturation, the authors reported.

The study is published in the March issue of Clinical & Experimental Ophthalmology.