Incision

KOLOA, Hawaii — In this Healio Video Perspective from Hawaiian Eye 2025, Eric D. Donnenfeld, MD, of OCLI Vision, highlights a new technique for performing penetrating limbal relaxing incisions.

Cefuroxime surgical antimicrobial prophylaxis should be administered within 60 minutes prior to incision to maximize risk reduction for surgical site infection in patients undergoing surgery, according to published results.

Surgeons may prevent wound complications after total knee arthroplasty in patients with previous incisions with proper skin incision choice, meticulous hemostasis and by avoiding excessive tension, according to a presenter.

Although both oblique and transverse incisions for treatment of fractures of the mid-to-outer third of the clavicle had equivalent effects on recovery of shoulder joint function, the oblique incision had several advantages over the transverse incision, according to published results.

There are definite advantages to combining cataract and glaucoma surgeries, and the choice of surgical methods significantly affects outcomes, according to a meta-analysis of published reports.

ATHENS, Greece – The ThinOptX IOL, a rollable lens that can be inserted through an incision of less than 2 mm, is now available in Europe. The ThinOptX IOL received CE Mark approval in September, allowing the lens to be officially marketed throughout Europe, the company announced during the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons in Nice, France. The news of the IOL’s recent approval took ESCRS attendees by storm.

Posterior capsular rupture with nuclear fragments poised for descent.

January 2001