Gabapentin Pretreatment for Staged Bilateral Cataract Operations

It has been reported that patients with bilateral cataract complained more pain and discomfort during the second consecutive eye surgery compared to the first eye surgery. Gabapentin is an anticonvulsant drug, which has been extended the use to perioperative analgesia, and anxiolysis. Therefore, the investigators conducted this randomized, controlled study to evaluate the effects of gabapentin premedication on patients' subjective sensations, including intraoperative anxiety, perceptions of pain, and light sensitivity, in the second cataract operations.