Treatment is directed toward immediate relief of pain and its cause (e.g. corneal scratch or foreign body). Topical analgesics such as proparacaine are highly effective at treating superficial eye ...

Patients who experience acute corneal injury should receive a safe post-treatment topical agent without corneal toxicity. The use of dilute topical agents such as 0.05% proparacaine is probably ...

Proparacaine HCl 0.5%; contains benzalkonium chloride. For procedures in which a topical ophthalmic anesthetic is indicated: corneal anesthesia of short duration (eg, tonometry, gonioscopy ...