Overview

Even the most experienced cataract surgeon can encounter stressful situations in the operating room. Be prepared to manage unavoidable complications with Phaco Nightmares: Conquering Cataract Catastrophes. It: explains all there is to know about phacoemulsification techniques to help you stay in control when facing unique surgical challenges; covers significant surgical techniques, including phaco chop, usage of gas forced infusion, and bimanual phaco; and, addresses difficult cases, such as subluxated cataracts, miotic pupils, suprahard cataracts, and posterior polar cataracts, as well as anterior segment scenarios and posterior segment scenarios. More than 300 illustrations and photographs supplement the important information presented, providing visual as well as textual references. An accompanying video CD-ROM demonstrates many of the techniques discussed.

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Reading this book can lead to a more restful night's sleep . . . The contributors to this book are world-renowned surgeons and the information that they provide will be useful to everyone who deals with cataracts, whether routine or complex. The contributors are experienced in their topic and provide state of the art information to manage nearly any situation. . . This video is very descriptive, but can make your heart skip a beat as you watch a lens float to the retina. Fortunately, each complication is managed efficiently and the viewer can pick up many important tips to use on their own complex cases. In summary, Phaco Nightmares - Conquering Cataract Catastrophes can be useful to phacomulsification surgeons of all experience levels. - David T. Vroman, MD, American Journal of Ophthalmology This is a well organized book on the various complications of phacoemulsification cataract surgery. Each chapter follows the same format and is concise, to the point and with a very practical

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Dr. Amar Agarwal is the pioneer of phakonit, which is phako with a needle incision technology. This technique became popularized as bimanual phaco, microincision cataract surgery (MICS), or microphaco. He is the first to remove cataracts through a 0.7 mm tip with the technique called microphakonit. He has also discovered no anesthesia cataract surgery and FAVIT, a new technique to remove dropped nuclei. The air pump, which was a simple idea of using an aquarium fish pump to increase the fluid into the eye in bimanual phaco and co-axial phaco, has helped prevent surge. This built the basis of various techniques of forced infusion for small incision cataract surgery. He was also the first to use trypan blue for staining epiretinal membranes and publishing the details in his four-volume Textbook of Ophthalmology. His latest discovery is a new refractive error called aberropia. Dr. Agarwal has received many awards for his work in ophthalmology, most significantly the Barraquer Award and the Kelman Award. He has also written more than 33 books, which have been published in various languages--English, Spanish, and Polish. He also trains doctors from all over the world in his center on phaco, bimanual phaco, LASIK, and retina. The website for Dr. Agarwal's Eye Hospital is http: //www.dragarwal.com.

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