Cataract Surgery News

Welcome to another edition of CEDARS/ASPENS Debates. CEDARS/ASPENS is a society of cornea, cataract and refractive surgery specialists, here to discuss some of the latest hot topics in ophthalmology.

NEW YORK — In this presentation from OSN New York, Nicole R. Fram, MD, Healio | OSN Associate Medical Editor, shares pearls for performing effective IOL exchanges.

NEW YORK — In this presentation from OSN New York, Uday Devgan, MD, of Devgan Eye Surgery, uses surgical footage to demonstrate how to resolve difficult cases of intumescent white cataracts.

CHICAGO — In this Healio Video Perspective from the AAO meeting, John Saharek, CEO and president of ImprimisRx, previews two recently launched ophthalmic surgery products.

Nearly 30 years after the organization’s founding, Cure Blindness Project, previously known as Himalayan Cataract Project and HCP Cureblindness, continues to fight preventable blindness in underserved parts of the world.

CHICAGO — In this Healio Video Perspective from the AAO meeting, I. Paul Singh, MD, discusses his experience with the Artevo 850 heads-up display and its positive impact on ergonomics during surgery.

Dear phaco companies (I’m talking about you, Alcon, Bausch + Lomb, Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision and Zeiss),

When we think of robotic eye surgery, we may mistakenly picture futuristic machines taking over while human ophthalmologists are left out.

Other than the surgeon and the IOL, nothing might be more important in cataract surgery than the phacoemulsification machine.