USE OF DIPRIFUSOR IN ANESTHESIA FOR OPHTHALMIC SURGERY

A technique of balanced anaesthesia involving propofol infusions and a rapidly metabolised opioid offers advantages over traditional anaesth etic techniques for eye surgery. The most appropriate mode of delivery of propofol is by a 'Diprifusor' target controlled infusion system. T his paper discusses the use of a 'Diprifusor' target controlled infusi on system for eye surgery. Published data are reviewed and the results of a retrospective analysis of 138 successive eye surgery patients ar e presented.