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The Future of
Cataract Surgery
W
hat will cataract surgery look like 10 or 20 years
from now? Hard to say, but the ophthalmic OR is
bound to be a lot different than it is today. "If you
look back 50 years at what we were doing in
cataract surgery, it's night and day compared to
now," says George O. Waring IV, MD, FACS, director of refractive sur-
gery and an associate professor of ophthalmology at the Medical
University of South Carolina in Charleston. One thing observers are
sure of: Case volumes will rise. Here are some possibilities that they
see in the busy decades ahead.
These advances will innovate your ophthalmic
ORs. David Bernard | Senior Associate Editor
• CHANGE OF VENUE Will cataract surgery
migrate from hospitals and surgery centers to offices?
George
O.
Waring
IV,
MD,
FACS