Cataract surgery
Maybe you have heard of it. Probably you or a relative you know has even been through it. Piece of cake? Yep…usually. There are plenty of surgeries, though, where things go awry as the eye is delicate and surgery can be unpredictable. Thing is most of the time it is smooth sailing. That is what patients want. That is what doctors want. Sometimes patients are saved from what they cannot imagine.
This week as my senior ophthalmology resident1 and I sat down to one of our cataract cases and pulled over the microscope a little warning bell rang in my head. Some of you might want to know what that warning bell was, but let’s just say it looked like the patient’s eye had been injured. The extra dilation the patient had for cataract surgery showed me a thing or two that was not evident in clinic. Doing cataract surgery on an eye that has been injured often goes well, but the word often is not the same as always, is it? [Read more…] about Gulp to Great. Saved from what cannot be imagined.