Clinical Case No. 1
A 34-year-old junior executive travels to China on a 10-day business trip. He wears soft 2-week contact lenses
but, due to an intense work schedule, exhibits poor contact lens maintenance and hygiene. His right eye…
Author: CRST
Sidebar: A Technician’s Perspective: How We Made EHRs Work for Us
I am a certified ophthalmic medical technologist in
a large practice with 19 ophthalmic technicians and six
ophthalmologists. My role in ensuring the successful
implementation and subsequent use of an electronic
health record (EHR) system lies…
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Dr. Radcliffe demonstrates the placement
of an iStent Trabecular Micro-Bypass Stent
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The Benefits of Participating in Value-Added Programs
LASIK surgery remains one of the most popular
elective surgeries in the United States. Thanks to
almost 2 decades’ worth of experience and technological
improvements, refractive surgeons consistently
achieve excellent results. From baby boom…
Surgery on Patients With Obstructive Sleep Apnea
emYour patient is overweight and reports problems with
obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). In the OR, the patient
allows you to start the case without incident but, while
sedated, begins to have coughing spells, move excessively,
etc., threatenin…
Toric Lens or Astigmatic Keratotomy?
For patients, cataract surgery is a unique, once-in-alifetime
opportunity to reduce their need for glasses
along with removing the cataract. We ophthalmologists
can address astigmatic refractive errors as well
as presbyopia with the surgery an…
The Flip-and-Slice Technique Is Safe and Efficient
I prefer the flip-and-slice technique for cataract surgery.
I have found this method of supracapsular cataract disassembly
to be safe and efficient, and this article details
its steps.
THE INCISIONS
I inject preservative-f…
Pearls for Laser Vision Correction After Cataract Surgery
Today, refractive cataract surgery generally produces
excellent visual results, but its refractive
predictability, although usually very good, lags
behind that of laser refractive surgery. Patients’
expectation of spectacle independence afte…
Cataract Surgery and IOP
emOver the past several years, there has been
increased interest in the effects of cataract
surgery on IOP in glaucoma patients. In clinical
trials of microinvasive glaucoma procedures,
the IOP dropped in some glaucoma patients
who underwen…
Raising the Bar
This week, I spent half an hour speaking
(or, more accurately, listening) to a patient who
had undergone uneventful cataract surgery with
a result of 20/20 UCVA in one eye and 20/40 in
his second eye. Although the visual acuity of his
second …
Cataract Surgery in the Presence of a Functioning Bleb
Patients who undergo trabeculectomy are at
increased risk of cataract formation and progression;
more than 50% of patients will require cataract
surgery within the first 5 years of trabeculectomy
surgery.sup1,2/sup
In the Advance…
When and How to Perform LASIK and PRK Enhancements
When I opened my laser refractive practice
in the fall of 1998, my threshold for performing
enhancements was relatively high.
Perhaps that stemmed from my past experience
with the difficulty of performing Russian (front
cutting) RK enhancemen…
Update on Microinvasive Glaucoma Surgery for the Cataract Surgeon
I implanted my very first iStent Trabecular Micro-Bypass
Stent (Glaukos Corporation) more than 7 years ago as a
part of the first-ever FDA premarket approval study of a
glaucoma device. It has been only been 14 months, however,
since the agenc…
Optimizing the Ocular Surface for Laser Corneal Refractive and Refractive Cataract Surgery
Thanks to rapid advances in the techniques and
technologies for laser cornea refractive and
refractive cataract surgery, the precision of
today’s surgical outcomes is unprecedented.
This success has led to soaring, often unrealistic expectat…
Pearls for Combining ECP and Cataract Surgery
There are two major benefits to performing endoscopic
cyclophotocoagulation (ECP). First, it lowers
IOP in a controlled fashion, which is arguably
one of the safest ways to lower IOP in patients
with glaucoma.sup1/sup It is well accepted t…
Six Steps to Success With Premium ioLs
It is hard to identify one key to success with premium IOLs.
What these lenses demand is careful attention to every
step of the process. I have been implanting premium lenses
since the introduction of the Array lens. Over the years,
multifocal…
Premium Cataract Surgery Goes Mainstream
Recent advances in cataract surgical technology
offer new opportunities for patients to achieve
good spectacle-free vision across all ranges, and
they provide cataract surgeons with the tools to
serve these needs. Discussions of these new tech…
5 Questions with Soosan Jacob, MS, FR CS, DNB
What attracted you to medical
practice and to ophthalmology?
I liked three things about ophthalmology:
interacting with people, working
with my hands, and using the technology.
Ophthalmology in the early 1990s took
a quantum leap,…
Nucleofractis. No Laser? No Problem
Prephaco chopping or prechop, as it was first
described about 20 years ago by Takayuki
Akahosi, MD, is a technique for fracturing the
nucleus under viscoelastic material prior to
phacoemulsification. As other advocates of prechopping
have no…