Anesthesia of the upper eyelid in upper blepharoplasty

Completed

Conditions: Blepharochalasis
drooping upper eyelid
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Registration Number: NL-OMON39724

Lead Sponsor: niversitair Medisch Centrum Groningen

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Completed

Sex: Not specified

Target Recruitment: 40

Inclusion Criteria

Patients with blepharochalasis who will have upper eyelid blepharoplasty for that purpose in the Bergman Clinics Heerenveen or Zwolle upward of the 1st of November 2013.

Exclusion Criteria

- Previous surgery on the upper eyelids
- Hypersensitivity to any component of Xylocaine 1%-Epinephrine or Citanest 3%-Octapressin or other local anesthetics of the amide type
- Congenital or idiopathic methaemoglobinaemia
- Inability to score pain using a Visual Analogue Scale

Study & Design

Study Type: Interventional

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<p>The pain experienced during infiltration of the anesthetic, has been scored by<br /><br>the participants on a Visual Analogue Scale from 0 to 10, with a score of 0<br /><br>which means no pain and a score of 10 wich means unbearable pain.</p><br>

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<p>- The participant is asked which upper eyelid was more painful during<br /><br>infiltration of the anesthetic: the first (right) upper eyelid, the second<br /><br>(left) upper eyelid, or no difference between the two upper eyelids.<br /><br><br /><br>- The plastic surgeon will record for each upper eyelid the number of times<br /><br>that reinjection of anesthetic was needed during the operation, written as 0x,<br /><br>1x, 2x, etc.<br /><br><br /><br>- The plastic surgeon will also record which of the upper eyelids did bleed<br /><br>more during surgery (right, left of no difference) and how much swelling (no,<br /><br>slight, moderate of severe), redness (no, slight, moderate of severe) and/or<br /><br>blue discoloration (no, minimal, moderate, severe) of the upper eyelids was<br /><br>seen just after the operation. </p><br>