At a district general hospital in the United Kingdom, an efficient and safe outpatient cataract surgery service was developed to prevent transmission of COVID-19, leading to high patient satisfaction.
“Surgery was performed in clean rooms using the Toul Operio Mobile device to create a sterile site,” Radhika Patel, MD, said at the virtual European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons winter meeting.
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, nonurgent surgery was halted to reduce transmission of the virus. Approximately 28 million routine surgeries were canceled worldwide, 43,000
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