General anaesthesia
LA alone
LA with sedation
Retrobulbar
Peribulbar
Sub-Tenon’s
Topical
Topical + intracameral
Sub-conjunctival
24.2
70.6
5.8
16.9
65.6
6.7
2.9
2.3
4.4
4.1
92.1
3.9
3.5
30.6
42.6
9.9
11.0
1.7
Table 7: Comparison of the trend and use of various anaesthetic techniquesfor
ocular surgery in UK for the years 1996 and 2002/2003 (Based on references
[30,31]).
