Does Topical Proparacaine Improve Postoperative Comfort After Strabismus Surgery?

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Table 1 Influence Of Perioperative Variables On Post-Operative Nursing Observations Following Strabismus Surgery In Children And Adults Which Include Heart Rate On Entry To Recovery Room, Time Until Discharge And Likert Scores. Proparacaine Was Randomly Delivered To 60 Of The 140 Patients With Post-Operative Antibiotic-Steroid Ointment In The Operated Eye(s). Table Cells Contain P-Values Determined By The Statistical Test In The Last Column Whether Variables Were Ordinal Or Continuous. (Unpaired, two-sample Student's t-test)

n=140	Value	Complexity (56 Complex)	Age < 3.5 Years	OCR < 66%	Opioid OR (n=59)	Neuro-Status (12+)	Proparacaine
Pain-first	Median 2 (0–10)	0.30	0.18	0.22	0.08	0.05	0.47	Mann–Whitney
Heart rate	105 ± 26 bpm	0.61	<0.01	<0.01	<0.01	0.41	0.58	t-Test
Nausea – initial	Median 0 (0–4)	0.15	0.11	0.21	0.02	0.55	0.39	Mann–Whitney
Pain stage 2	Median 1 (0–10)	0.15	0.40	0.78	0.31	0.21	0.99	Mann–Whitney
Irritability	Median 1 (0–5)	0.74	0.06	0.27	<0.01	0.44	0.54	Mann–Whitney
Nausea stage 2	Median 0 (0–4)	0.39	0.79	0.12	0.27	0.38	0.12	Mann–Whitney
Time until discharge	77 ± 37 mins	0.84	<0.01	0.15	0.10	0.87	0.45	t-Test

Figure 1 Impact of proparacaine 1% added to post-strabismus antibiotic-steroid ointment in strabismus surgery classified as simple (routine virgin recession cases and inferior oblique myectomy) versus complex cases (recess/resect, transpositions, re-operations). Box plot surrounding middle quartiles with median and bars extend to range of outcomes.