Changes in intraocular pressure during coronary artery bypass graft surgery: an observational study

Comprehensive perioperative eye protection

“…One of the articles assessed perioperative visual acuity and IOP of patients submitted to major non-cardiac surgeries, 7 and another assessed patients submitted to heart surgery with and without cardiopulmonary bypass. 8 Two other observational studies 9 , 10 assessed the effect of the head-down tilt position during robotic prostatectomy on IOP, in that one of the studies correlated IOP with the optic nerve sheath diameter. Indirectly related to the topic, this edition also brings an original case report related to ICP and IOP behavior, with noninvasive monitoring during robotic prostatectomy.…”

“…Erol et al 8 studied 45 patients submitted to cardiac surgery, comparing IOP in procedures with pulsatile and non-pulsatile cardiopulmonary bypass, and surgeries without cardiopulmonary bypass. IOP was assessed before, during, and after surgery, and during cardiopulmonary bypass, it decreased more prominently in patients submitted to non-pulsatile cardiopulmonary bypass.…”