David F. Chang, MD

The benefits of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs for cataract surgery include their ability to prevent intraoperative miosis and to act as intraoperative and postoperative analgesics. The anti-inflammatory properties of NSAIDs provide protection against postoperative cystoid macular edema (CME) and iritis.

Bimanual phaco goes by several names coined by its innovators – Phakonit (Agarwal), Micro Phaco (Olson) and MICS – Micro-Incision Cataract Surgery (Alio). Although preceded by other “cold” modalities such as laser phaco and sonics, it was the introduction of WhiteStar technology (Advanced Medical Optics) 2 years ago that jumpstarted the growing interest in bimanual phaco.