“Why do they tape your eyes shut during surgery?”
I am a 45 year old female and I will have surgery under general anesthesia. I heard that they tape eyes shut during a surgery. Why do they tape your eyes shut during surgery?
8 Answers
Just to protect the cornea from drying up and inadvertently getting scratched. In awake state, we can blink and prevent corneal drying up, wear dark glasses to protect from wind, etc. All these functions are not available when you are rendered unconscious.
For protection. During anesthesia, eyes get dry. Also could suffer lacerations or abrasions during the procedure.
During surgery, if you don’t tape the eyes, they can open slightly and get dry which subsequently can cause corneal abrasions.
Hope this helps.
Hope this helps.
We tape eyes to protect them during surgery and so they don't dry up. For some procedures, we may put a sterile lubricant in the eye prior to or instead of taping them.
Steven Dain
Steven Dain