Surgical Teaching Series: Elevating your skills from competence to elegance
Theme:
Cataract
When:
3:45 PM, Friday 1 Jun 2018
(1 hour 30 minutes)
Where:
How:
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
Agenda
3:45 Introduction
Setting up for success: Bed, microscope and draping
Mastering incisions: How to turn off your autopilot
Ditch your cystotome
Help: My rhexis ran out – What now?
Discussion
The perfect hydrodissection and why you should pursue it
True cortical cleaving hydrodissection: A lost art?
Multilaminar hydrodelineation: Your best friend for soft lenses
Decompressing the white cataract
Discussion
Sculpt and crack with purpose
Nailing your first chop every time
Learn to hemiflip and never rotate a lens again
Phaco flip: How to manage a whole nucleus
Discussion
Cortical removal: Suck, don’t strip
Dry aspiration: The pro’s best friend
"Stealth mode" would hydration and when it matters most
Discussion
5:15 Adjourn
At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Assess your current cataract surgery techniques
- Differentiate and integrate best techniques to elevate your techniques
- Apply different techniques to improve your cataract surgery outcomes
Agenda
3:45 Introduction
Setting up for success: Bed, microscope and draping
Mastering incisions: How to turn off your autopilot
Ditch your cystotome
Help: My rhexis ran out – What now?
Discussion
The perfect hydrodissection and why you should pursue it
True cortical cleaving hydrodissection: A lost art?
Multilaminar hydrodelineation: Your best friend for soft lenses
Decompressing the white cataract
Discussion
Sculpt and crack with purpose
Nailing your first chop every time
Learn to hemiflip and never rotate a lens again
Phaco flip: How to manage a whole nucleus
Discussion
Cortical removal: Suck, don’t strip
Dry aspiration: The pro’s best friend
"Stealth mode" would hydration and when it matters most
Discussion
5:15 Adjourn
