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And I can also see DISTINCT advantages of being asleep while all this is going on!!!!!! ” title=”Very Happy” />

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I WOULD LIKE TO PROFIT FROM ALL EXPERIENCES WITH THIS TOPIC. I do realize that many eye surgeons who do strabismus surgeries, are pediatric eye surgeons, and automatically want a general (patient is intubated, completely asleep.)
BUT, I have spoken personally with a couple people, one in Chicago, who had their strabismus surgery while awake with a local. I can see the advantage of this, for the surgeon would move the muscles, have the head of the bed raised, the patient would look at the "X" on the wall, and say when he saw one X, not two. This would greatly increase the chances of getting it right the first time, it seems to me, thus preventing repeat eye muscle (strablsmus) surgeries to get it right.

I am SO looking forward to comments about this.
Shirley

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