CORING - A POTENTIAL PROBLEM IN EYE SURGERY

Any needle passing through a rubber stopper can aspirate a core of rub ber. This rubber may then be injected into the eye or into the retrobu lbar or peribulbar space. Aspirates from a number of syringes were spu n down in a centrifuge and examined for microscopic particles. All spe cimens contained microscopic particles even from half-used bottles of Xylocaine(TM).