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Zeiss markerless cataract suite reduces surgery time
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CHICAGO — The Zeiss Cataract Suite markerless system can reduce overall surgery time by 6 minutes, according to a speaker at a Carl Zeiss Meditec media briefing.
Jan Willem de Cler, head of surgical ophthalmology, presented the findings of two studies from Wolfgang J. Mayer, MD, which showed the use of the Zeiss Cataract Suite reduced the overall surgery time from 18 minutes using a manual technique to 12 minutes with the markerless system.
The device allows surgeons to skip manual preoperative corneal marking and intraoperative marking steps during cataract surgery.
Additionally, the Zeiss system reduced postoperative IOL misalignment to 2.1 degrees, down from 3.9 degrees with a manual technique, according to the study data.
“[With] manual alignment, you have a 4-degree rotation, which is quite a lot for a toric operation. In this study, with the Zeiss Cataract Suite markerless, it goes down to 2.1 degrees, which is very good. It gets you more patients to plus or minus half a diopter, and that’s what the Zeiss Cataract Suite is about. More precision, more efficiency,” de Cler said. – by Robert Linnehan
Disclosure: de Cler reports he is the head of surgical ophthalmology for Carl Zeiss Meditec.