Cataract Surgery News

ORLANDO — In this surgical video presentation from Cataract Surgery: Telling It Like It Is, Nicole Bajic, MD, shares her experience dealing with her first case of corneal clouding during a cataract surgery procedure.

ORLANDO — In this surgical video presentation from Cataract Surgery: Telling It Like It Is, Alison D. Early, MD, shares her experience of performing cataract surgery in a high myope to show young surgeons difficulties they may encounter.

There are a number of tools and programs cataract surgeons can use to improve their efficiency and workflow, according to a presentation at Real World Ophthalmology.

Testing and treating patients for dry eye are mandatory before the preoperative measurements for cataract surgery are performed, according to one speaker.

A new simulator will put cataract surgeons-in-training in a virtual operating room and connect them with remote instructors, according to a press release.

Toric IOLs are an invaluable tool in the cataract surgeon’s armamentarium, not difficult to use and beneficial for the practice and patients, according to one presenter.

The first 2022 issue of the Video Journal of Cataract, Refractive, and Glaucoma Surgery, which uses video-based education to advance knowledge and training of ophthalmic surgeons, is now online.

ORLANDO — In this surgical video presentation from Cataract Surgery: Telling It Like It Is, Hazem M. Yassin, MD, of Cairo University, Egypt, shows the many differences in performing cataract surgery in a pediatric vs. adult patient.

ORLANDO — In this surgical video presentation from Cataract Surgery: Telling It Like It Is, Jason J. Jones, MD, of Jones Eye Clinic in Sioux City, Iowa, shares a phaco case edited into a 4-minute video including all steps of the surgery.

ORLANDO — In this surgical video presentation from Cataract Surgery: Telling It Like It Is, Guadalupe Cervantes-Coste, MD, of Mexico City, shares her cataract surgery technique implanting a trifocal IOL.