delivery of the meds over time and guarantees compliance
with the post-op care regimen.
"We have converted to dropless with Imprimis
TriMoxVanc," says surgeon Jon-Marc Weston, MD, Vision
Surgery and Laser Center in Roseburg, Ore. "I'm seeing a
trend toward using that more and more," adds Nancy
Lord, RN, BSN, the administrator of the River Drive
Surgery & Laser Center in Elmwood Park, N.J., one of the
busiest cataract centers in the country. "It's fabulous for
patient compliance. Patients no longer need eye drops to
take home."
Dropless cataract surgery curbs the 3 C's: cost, compli-
ance and contamination, says Maria Tietjen, RN, BSN, exec-
utive vice president of nursing with American Surgisite
Centers of Somerset, N.J., which oversees 9 surgery centers
that perform around 50,000 cataract cases a year.
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