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The Affordable Care Act - March 2015 - Outpatient Surgery Magazine

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Role of image-guided systems While intraoperative aberrometry is a great way to check your progress, image-guided systems are designed to create a smooth process of planning and executing refractive cataract surgery. This new technology incor- porates several digital planning and surgical positioning tools aimed to avoid errors that can occur between the initial patient evalua- tion and the day of the procedure. Image-guided systems work by first using a diagnostic machine to take a pre-op "photo" of your patient's eye that shows the shape and measurements of the cornea, locations of lim- bal vessels and other important readings. Those measurements are then held in the sys- tem's software and are used to help you deter- mine where to place the lens or incisions. After your pre-op planning is complete, the software takes your planned incisions and/or lens placement and sends it to a device attached to your microscope that creates an overlay to guide you during surgery. Some of these systems also include software to help calculate the power of the IOL you need to use to correct the astigmatism. As with the aberrometer, this doesn't alleviate the need of the surgeon to make his own manual calcula- tions, but can certainly help aid or confirm his decisions. The real star of these systems is their ability to produce the overlay used on the day of surgery. The overlay helps you pinpoint M A R C H 2 0 1 5 | O U T P A T I E N TS U R G E R Y. N E T

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