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Would there be a need to be under general anesthesia (sleeping) for a laser retinopexy of the eye?
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Mostly not: This would be done under general only if there was the unlikely possibility or no possibility of cooperation. This would include the retarded, those with uncontrollable motor activity, fierce anxiety and of course youth.
Answered 11/25/2014
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