Clinical Training Course: The Ophthalmic Patient

Drs. Don R. Hirschman and David L. Guyton

Identify members of the anesthesia care team and improve communications and patient care before, during, and after ophthalmic surgery; Review the historical identification of anesthetic myotoxicity; Describe the typical signs, symptoms, and clinical course of anesthetic myotoxicity; Demonstrate the proper approach to surgical correction of anesthetic myotoxicity; and Avoid anesthetic myotoxicity in anterior-segment and posterior-segment ophthalmic surgery.