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)

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