Twilight Anaesthesia
Many patients are very anxious about their surgery and many fear general anaesthesia. “Twilight” anaesthesia is the answer for many such patients. I work very closely with a very skilled consultant anaesthetist who has over 15 years of experience in giving intravenous sedation using a combination of Midazolam and Propofol specifically for patients undergoing a wide variety of oculoplastic procedures. These agents provide safe conscious sedation allowing the painless delivery of local anaesthetic injections at the beginning of your operation. The agents are then titrated to your own needs so that you are comfortable throughout the procedure. You have very little recollection of most of the procedure and the recovery from the effects of the sedation is very rapid. This allows many procedures to be carried out comfortably on a day case basis, avoiding the need for an overnight stay in hospital.
