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Bimanual phaco with Infiniti system is safe and efficient, surgeon says
SAN FRANCISCO — Bimanual cataract surgery with the Alcon Infiniti cataract system is safe and takes no longer than conventional phaco, according to one surgeon.
Richard B. Packard, MD, FRCS, spoke on what he called his “limited” experience with the Infiniti system here at the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery annual meeting. Dr. Packard said he performed conventional phaco on 10 patients and bimanual phaco on 10 patients with the Infiniti system. Length of surgery was used as the outcome, he said. In both groups, surgery time was about 12.5 minutes.
He described one case of a hard cataract. During surgery with the Infiniti, Dr. Packard said the chamber remained stable, there was low energy dissipation, “and the wound remained pristine. This equipment is completely predictable.”
Dr. Packard is a consultant for Alcon.