Preoperative Anxiety Levels and Pain during Cataract Surgery.

Conclusions: One-fifth of patients experienced severe anxiety and pain. Preoperative anxiety levels was the only significant predictor of pain. Reducing preoperative anxiety in cataract patients is warranted.
PMID: 31509020 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Current Eye Research - September 10, 2019 Category: Opthalmology Authors: Socea SD, Abualhasan H, Magen, Zayit-Soudry S, Blumenthal EZ, Duvdevan N, Mimouni M Tags: Curr Eye Res Source Type: research