Vitreoretinal surgery fellows tend to become faster at peeling over the course of their fellowship, according to a study presented at the American Society of Retina Specialists annual meeting.
Rachel A. Downes, MD, of Cleveland Clinic Cole Eye Institute, and colleagues conducted a retrospective review of a prospectively collected intraoperative database that included 248 cases performed by eight vitreoretinal surgery fellows. An independent observer measured peel time, defined as the time from first contact with an instrument to the membrane surface until the membrane was fully separated from