purpose: to compare the efficacy and safety of two local anesthetic methods; retrobulbar anesthesia and parabulbar anesthesia using ptfe intravenous cannula without needle in extracapsular cataract surgery. method: a randomized prospective partially blind study was conducted on 66 eyes of 66 patients with senile cataract who were scheduled for ecce and pc iol surgery. after randomization, 35 pa...

Following extracapsular cataract and posterior chamber implant surgery the sequential recovery of the blood-aqueous barrier was measured by anterior segment fluorophotometry. Postoperatively 49 (69.0%) out of 71 eyes (71 patients) had recovered at a uniform rate, re-establishing a normal blood-aqueous barrier by the end of the three-month study. In these eyes recovery of the blood-aqueous barri...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate surgical experience among current doctors appointed into ophthalmology training posts since the introduction of the Modernising Medical Careers programme. Additionally, to identify regional variations in surgical experience and training programme delivery. DESIGN A cross-sectional survey. SETTING The UK's four largest deaneries (Schools of Ophthalmology). PARTICIPAN...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to perform a reference case, cost-utility analysis of initial cataract surgery using the current literature on cataract outcomes and complications. DESIGN Computer-based econometric modeling. METHODS Visual acuity data of patients treated and observed over a 4-month postoperative period was obtained from the US National Cataract Patient Outcomes Researc...

INTRODUCTION During cataract surgery under regional (retrobulbar, peribulbar or sub- Tenon's) or topical anaesthesia, many patients experience a variety of visual sensations in their operated eye intraoperatively. Between 3% and 16.2% of patients are frightened by their intraoperative visual experiences, which may increase the risk of intraoperative complications and affect patients' satisfacti...

PURPOSE To study willingness to pay for cataract surgery and surgical service provided by a senior cataract surgeon in urban Southern China. METHODS This study was a cross-sectional willingness-to-pay (WTP) interview using bidding formats. Two-hundred eleven persons with presenting visual impairment in either eye due to cataract were enrolled at a tertiary eye hospital. Participants underwent...

PURPOSE To present the outcomes of prophylaxis of postoperative endophthalmitis following cataract surgery with intracameral Cefuroxime. METHOD A retrospective study was done on 4281 eyes that underwent cataract surgery from October 2003 to September 2008. All patients underwent phacoemulsification cataract surgery. All cases received an injection of 0.1 ml intracameral Cefuroxime (1 mg) at t...

AIM The aim of the study was to describe the prevalence and visual outcomes of cataract surgery in an urban Asian population. METHODS This was a population-based study of 3280 Singapore Malays aged 40-80 years (response rate 78.7%). Participants had a standardised interview and comprehensive ocular examination. Poor post-operative visual outcome was defined as visual acuity </=20/60 in operat...