Cataract Awareness

In this video series, Alison D. Early, MD, cataract surgeon and comprehensive ophthalmologist at the Cincinnati Eye Institute, explores:

• “exciting” new technologies, such as Light Adjustable Lens and small-aperture IOLs;
• the importance of a preoperative eye exam and discussing patient preferences and lifestyles to help them pick the best cataract surgical option to “meet their visual goals;”
• ways she helps patients choose an IOL, like by using a vision simulator that shows patients what the different lenses might look like after their surgery;
• how individual surgeon experience can factor into deciding the right surgery and IOL for each patient;
• “tailoring” the conversation about cataract surgery complications to the patient, but explaining that it’s “probably one of the safest surgeries that can be done;”
• benefits of surgery, such as that insurance often covers refractive surgery and patients can have “brighter, clearer, better vision overall;”
• spreading awareness that there are many “amazing” ways to improve vision with cataract surgery, and that declining vision isn’t something aging patients “have to suffer their entire life.”