A Dark aftermath - a case report of transient bilateral postoperative blindness following hip surgery under general endotracheal anesthesia /
Bryan Paolo C. Warren.
- Fairview, Quezon City: Department of Anesthesiology, FEU-NRMF, 2018.
- 9 pages: illustrations, tables; (in folder) + CD (soft copy)
Includes appendices and bibliographical references.
Abstract: Visual loss after anesthesia and non-ocular surgery is a very rare, unexpected and devastating complication with no established definitive etiology. A myraid of intra-operative and post-operative factors have been implicated in a variety of operative procedures, most notably following spine and heart surgery. We present a case of transient bilateral postoperative visual loss in a patient who had undergone total hip arthroplasty under general endotracheal anesthesia with massive intraoperative blood loss.
Research - Department of Anesthesiology
post-operative vision loss (POVL) hip surgery hemorrhage idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) ischemic optic meuropathy (ION)