Ocular Massage Research Articles

THE OCULOCARDIAC REFLEX DURING EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE SURGERY.

Introduction For years, physicians have known about the oculocardiac reflex. Paroxysmal auricular tachycardia could frequently be reverted to a slower, normal rhythm by ocular massage, and many physicians have used this as initial therapy. Ophthalmologists and anesthesiologists have also been interested in the reflex, because several cardiac arrests during ocular surgery have been attributed to it. During the past decade, several clinical studies have shed more light on the subject. Kirsch, 1-3 collaborating with other authors on several reports, found that the reflex is apt to occur with extraocular muscle traction, ocular pressure, intraorbital injections, and compression of apical contents after enucleation. Several factors predisposing the reflex were noted to be fear, hypoxia, hypercapnia, sensitivity to, and overdose of drugs. Although the bradycardia happens in a large percentage of cases, Kirsch believed that cardiac arrest occurred about once in approximately 3,500 eye operations. Although Kirsch 1 and Taylor 4 believe

VACUUM MASSAGE OF THE EYEBALL

From early times ocular massage has been recognized as producing a favorable effect on diseases of the eye. Grecian records show such a procedure to have been practiced among that people, and Paul of Aegina, the last of the eclectics, commented on its curative value. Massage of the eyes seems not to have originated with the intellectuals, for the savages of Africa and America used it intuitively. Pagenstecher 1 in 1871 published a monograph on massage of the eyes, at which time he reported having obtained magnificent results by massage even when other agents failed. Donders 1 in 1872 recited his accomplishments with ocular massage before the International Congress of Ophthalmology at London. Heiberg 1 in 1874, Just, 2 Pedraglia 3 in 1880 and Damalix 4 in 1881 particularized special disease benefited by massage. Hoffmann 5 is credited by Domec 6 with being the first to design an instrument for

Ocular Massage

The Australasian Journal of OptometryVolume 6, Issue 10 p. 223-231 Ocular Massage First published: December 1924 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1444-0938.1924.tb01763.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume6, Issue10December 1924Pages 223-231 RelatedInformation