Anaesthesia techniques for lens surgery - INAHTA Brief

The French Association of Health Insurance Funds (L’Union nationale des caisses d’assurance maladie - UNCAM) has asked the HAS to deliver an opinion on the state-of-the-art of anaesthesia practices for all types of cataract surgery.

In view of the general context of this assessment, two main questions were selected:

• question no. 1: define the indications and the non-indications of each of the anaesthesia techniques for cataract surgery;
• question no. 2: determine the practice requirements and the environment necessary for anaesthetic management of cataract