Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv für klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie
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Graefes Arch. Clin. Exp. Ophthalmol. · Oct 2011
Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study Comparative StudyPain during second eye cataract surgery under topical anesthesia: an intraindividual study.
Aim of the study was to investigate: 1) if second eye cataract surgery under topical anesthesia is more painful than surgery on the first eye, 2) if pain experienced during the procedure on the first eye may predict the pain of the second procedure, and 3) if patients' cooperation is different between the first and the second eye procedure. ⋯ After uneventful cataract surgery under topical anesthesia, pain experienced and cooperation did not differ between first and second eye procedures. A correlation was found between pain scores of the first and the second eye procedures.