Management of Complications

Question 1

What is the most common injury after anesthesia?

Answer 1

Although injuries from anesthesia are uncommon, the most
frequent injury that does occur is corneal abrasion. It can occur
during general anesthesia, regional anesthesia, or monitored
anesthesia care and requires the anesthetist to pay close
attention to the potential for eye injury at all times.
Nagelhout JJ, Plaus KL. Nurse Anesthesia. 5th ed. St. Louis,
MO: Elsevier Saunders Company; 2014: 997.

Question 2

What are the risk factors that are associated with an

increased risk of postoperative blindness?

Answer 2

Risk factors for the development of postoperative blindness
include: intraoperative hypotension, male sex, obesity, anemia
from blood loss greater than 1 liters, surgery greater than 5
hours in duration, use of a Wilson frame, and decreased
percent colloid administration.
Nagelhout JJ, Plaus KL. Nurse Anesthesia. 5th ed. St. Louis,
MO: Elsevier Saunders Company; 2014: 1010.

Question 3

A patient who has numbness to the forehead

probably has damage to which nerve?

Answer 3

The supraorbital nerve
Moses KP, Banks JC, Nava PB, Petersen D. Atlas of Clinical
Gross Anatomy. Philadelphia, PA: Mosby-Elsevier; 2005: 6-144.