Full Description
Even the most experienced cataract surgeon can encounter stressful situations in the operating room. With the new edition of More Phaco Nightmares: Conquering Cataract Catastrophes, surgeons can be prepared to manage unavoidable complications with ease.
Dr. Amar Agarwal, along with over 35 of today's cataract surgery leaders, explain all there is to know about phacoemulsification and bring their extensive experience with their own surgical nightmares. The book contains 5 sections that gradually escalate from the basics to nightmares, furnishing phaco surgeons with complicated scenarios and the essential guidance to assess, manage, and resolve.
Featuring updated content and brand new, state-of-the-art chapters on a variety of complex situations, More Phaco Nightmares is the toolkit surgeons need to stay in control when facing unique and especially challenging intra- and postoperative complications.
Sample chapters include:
The Phaco Machine
Air Pump, Gas-Forced Infusion, and Active Fluidics
Intraoperative Floppy Iris Syndrome
Single-Pass Four-Throw Pupilloplasty
Management of Capsule Rupture at Cataract Surgery
Malpositioned Intraocular Lens
Optic Capture
Glued Intraocular Lens
Management and Prevention of Negative Dysphotopsia
Pseudophakic Cystoid Macular Edema
More than 350 illustrations and photographs supplement the text, providing visual as well as textual references for each case. Plus, an accompanying video website contains over 4 hours of new, original, high-quality video content, offering additional visual learning to demonstrate the techniques discussed.
Offering cutting-edge information, More Phaco Nightmares: Conquering Cataract Catastrophes will guide surgeons on how to mitigate the common problems and unanticipated disasters that may arise for even the most experienced surgeons.
Contents
Acknowledgments About the Editor Contributing Authors Preface Foreword Section I Phaco: Machine and Technique Chapter 1 The Fluidics and Physics of Phaco Chapter 2 The Phaco Machine Chapter 3 Air Pump, Gas-Forced Infusion, and Active Fluidics Chapter 4 Preparing for the Transition to Phacoemulsification Section II Difficult Cases Chapter 5 Astigmatism in Cataract Surgery Chapter 6 Pediatric Cataract Surgery Chapter 7 Small Pupil Chapter 8 Intraoperative Floppy Iris Syndrome Chapter 9 Posterior Polar Cataracts Chapter 10 Subluxated Cataract Chapter 11 Phacoemulsification in White Cataract Chapter 12 Iris Reconstruction Chapter 13 Single-Pass Four-Throw Pupilloplasty Chapter 14 Combined Cataract and Glaucoma Surgery Section III Posterior Capsule Rupture: What Next? Chapter 15 Trocar Anterior Chamber Maintainer: An Improvised New Concept of Infusion Chapter 16 Management of Capsule Rupture at Cataract Surgery Chapter 17 Intraocular Lens Scaffold Chapter 18 Dropped Nucleus Chapter 19 Malpositioned Intraocular Lens Chapter 20 Posterior Capsule Rupture and Posterior Polar Cataracts Section IV Intraocular Implantation in Eyes With Deficient Capsules Chapter 21 Optic Capture Chapter 22 Iris Suturing of an Intraocular Lens Chapter 23 Scleral-Fixated Intraocular Lens Chapter 24 Glued Intraocular Lens Chapter 25 Flanged Intrascleral Intraocular Lens Fixation With Double-Needle Technique Section V Miscellaneous Chapter 26 Complications of Femtosecond Laser-Assisted Cataract Surgery Chapter 27 Bullous Keratopathy Managed With Endothelial Keratoplasty Including Pre-Descemet's Endothelial Keratoplasty Chapter 28 Management and Prevention of Negative Dysphotopsia Chapter 29 Pseudophakic Cystoid Macular Edema Chapter 30 Postoperative Endophthalmitis, Toxic Anterior Segment Syndrome, and Other Postoperative Inflammatory Syndromes Chapter 31 Vitrectomy-Assisted Phacoemulsification Financial Disclosures Index
