Laser cataract surgery
Once the hottest trend in cataract surgery, laser cataract surgery
might be losing some steam. The percentage of facilities offering this
service declined from 51% last year to 41% this year. Several facilities
that dropped it cited cost, speed, space and tepid surgeon commit-
ment.
"We tried it when it was first implemented, but it was short-lived,"
says Annquinetta Dansby-Kell, RN, CRNO, clinical coordinator at the
Eye Center of the Outpatient Care Center in Birmingham, Ala. "Most
surgeons were not interested. It prolonged overall OR time and many
felt that they performed a reasonable manual capsulorhexis without
the laser."
"We tried it for a year, but it was not a cost-effective option for our
patient population
and our ASC was not
big enough for the
process to be effi-
cient," says Laura
Picano-Wilson, RN,
clinical director of the
Livonia (Mich.)
Outpatient Surgery
Center.
"We have stopped
using this modality,"
says a Philadelphia
ophthalmologist. "It
increases inflamma-
tion, constricts the
pupil and, worst of all,
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-op resulting in
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