WAILEA, Hawaii — It is important to be ‘kind, but firm’ with patients who would benefit from getting dry eye under control before cataract surgery, according to a speaker at Hawaiian Eye 2021.
Upon arrival for their preoperative cataract evaluation, new patients should fill out a psychometric questionnaire to rule out symptoms or a history of dry eye disease, Marguerite McDonald, MD, FACS, said.
“A doctor can’t order a dry eye test for everybody who comes into the office,” McDonald said. If a patient exhibits one symptom of dry eye disease on the Standardized