Samuel Masket MD has been a leader in cataract surgery for many years and has published extensively about a wide…
1853: understanding the combo chop
This combo chop is a mix of horizontal and vertical chop and it has become my go-to technique for phaco…
1852: chopped but can’t bring heminucleus up
In this case the nucleus is chopped efficiently, but there is a struggle to bring up the first heminucleus. Why?…
1851: Is this posterior subscapsular or polar?
Looks carefully at the picture here and tell me, is that a posterior subscapsular cataract (PSC) or a posterior polar…
1850: ASCRS 2023 Course Case 9
On Sunday, May 7, 2023 we had our Best of CataractCoach.com course at the ASCRS meeting in San Diego. It…
1849: ASCRS 2023 Course Case 8
On Sunday, May 7, 2023 we had our Best of CataractCoach.com course at the ASCRS meeting in San Diego. It…
1848: ASCRS 2023 Course Case 7
On Sunday, May 7, 2023 we had our Best of CataractCoach.com course at the ASCRS meeting in San Diego. It…
1847: Curriculum Lesson 24: white cataracts
The next lesson in our 25 part curriculum series is focused on dealing with dense cataracts. You can see the…
1846: ASCRS 2023 Course Case 6
On Sunday, May 7, 2023 we had our Best of CataractCoach.com course at the ASCRS meeting in San Diego. It…
1845: ASCRS 2023 Course Case 5
On Sunday, May 7, 2023 we had our Best of CataractCoach.com course at the ASCRS meeting in San Diego. It…
1844: ASCRS 2023 Course Case 4
On Sunday, May 7, 2023 we had our Best of CataractCoach.com course at the ASCRS meeting in San Diego. It…
1843: ASCRS 2023 Course Case 3
On Sunday, May 7, 2023 we had our Best of CataractCoach.com course at the ASCRS meeting in San Diego. It…
1842: ASCRS 2023 Course Case 2
On Sunday, May 7, 2023 we had our Best of CataractCoach.com course at the ASCRS meeting in San Diego. It…
1841: ASCRS 2023 Course Case 1
On Sunday, May 7, 2023 we had our Best of CataractCoach.com course at the ASCRS meeting in San Diego. It…
1840: PodCast 10: Fasika Woreta MD MPH
Dr Fasika Woreta is a professor at the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, USA and…
1839: posterior polar with capsule rupture
This is a really difficult surgery because it is a posterior polar cataract and there is a pre-existing posterior capsule…
1838: the easy way to learn phaco chop
There is some resistance among surgeons to learn a new technique because of the learning curve. For surgeons who are…
1837: phaco & irido-zonulo-hyaloidectomy
This nanophthalmic eye has an axial length of less than 20 mm and is suffering from malignant glaucoma and aqueous…
1836: phaco and irido-dialysis repair
This patient sustained ocular trauma years ago which resulted in the disinsertion of the iris root at the temporal aspect…
1835: efficient phaco chop dense nucleus
This patient has a dense cataract — the kind where the posterior plate of the nucleus is tough and fibrous…
1834: phaco-section and then extraction
We have previously featured this technique (and this guest surgeon) which shows the phaco-section technique. In this case, using a…
1833: Curriculum lesson 23: dense cataracts
The next lesson in our 25 part curriculum series is focused on dealing with dense cataracts. You can see the…
1832: Q&A about Anterior Vitrectomy
I recent did a podcast with Zale Mednick MD from the blindspot-podcast.com where we discussed anterior vitrectomy in cataract surgery.…
1831: cataract and 8 cut radial keratotomy RK
This is one of the four radial keratotomy patients on whom I operated in the same morning. My practice attracts…
1830: trust yourself but question computers
I recently performed a cataract surgery case using a heads-up electronic display where the computer would overlay a precise circle…
1829: top 5 pearls for presbyopic IOLs
Presbyopic IOLs, primarily trifocal designs, can make patients very happy. However there are some important considerations in order to achieve…
1828: review of efficiency in the OR
We recently had an entire week of videos devoted to the topic of efficiency in the operating room. And our…
1827: review of techniques for white cataracts
This video is a compilation showing highlights from previous videos in order to review the techniques for white cataracts. We…
1826: PodCast 9: Vance Thompson MD
Vance Thompson MD is a visionary in refractive surgery and he has truly perfected the patient experience starting with his…
1825: the problem with one haptic in the sulcus
This patient has femtosecond laser assisted cataract surgery with placement of a trifocal IOL two years ago. And while the…
1824: two jerky pulls to save the capsulorhexis
We have previously covered the Little Technique to pull backwards to help save a run-out capsulorhexis. This Two Jerky Pulls…
1823: white cataract after intra-vitreal injection
When a patient develops a white cataract right after an intra-vitreal injection, you can be pretty sure that the capsular…
1822: lens snare/loop splits the bag!
The idea of a lens snare or loop to mechanically split the nucleus is decades old and we previously discussed…
1821: Are you ready for prime time?
If you are a young surgeon nearing the end of your training in the USA or Canada, you will be…
1820: monocular with pseudo-exfoliation
Ophthalmologists are very familiar with pseudo-exfoliation syndrome since it makes the cataract surgery more challenging due to poor dilation or…
1819: curriculum lesson 22: small pupil & iris prolapse
The next lesson in our 25 part curriculum series is focused on dealing with small pupils and iris prolapse. You…
1818: My Week: Sub-incisional cortex
With sub-incisional cortex, using a bimanual IA set-up makes it relatively easy to remove. However, with a co-axial IA probe,…
1817: My Week: How do I get the nucleus up?
Many readers have asked for pearls in getting the nucleus up, part way out of the capsular bag, and in…
1816: My Week: flush out nuclear chips
Every single cataract surgeon who has done at least a few thousand cases has encountered a case with a retained…
1815: My Week: do not prolapse this nucleus
For many cases, I prefer to partially prolapse the nucleus out of the capsular bag so that it is easier…
1814: My Week: what happened to the capsule?
Just looking at the title picture should give you a little stress — it does for me! In this case,…
1813: My Week: pseudo-exfoliation case
All this week we will be showing videos of me operating. When I first started CataractCoach in 2018, almost all…
1812: PodCast 8: Stephen Slade MD
Stephen Slade MD has taught LASIK to thousands of surgeons, including me back when I was a resident in 1999.…
1811: triple procedure: PKP + CEIOL
The term triple procedure is a little misleading because it is two surgeries: corneal transplantation and cataract surgery. The triple…
1810: severe zonular loss with Cionni ring
Cases like this are stressful and just looking at this picture should make your heart beat faster. There is a…
1809: father vs son challenge – the son
Yesterday we featured a video (1808) from a highly experienced cataract surgeon (the father) who did a horizontal chop technique…
1808: father vs son challenge – the father
Ophthalmology, particularly cataract surgery, is such an amazing field that it is relatively common to see generations of eye surgeons…
1807: annular cataract with scarred capsule
It is very unusual to see this type of annular cataract where the remaining lens material is in the shape…
1806: left-handed resident breaks the bag
Let me be the first to say that it is perfectly fine for a surgeon to be left handed. Surprisingly,…
1805: curriculum lesson 21: anterior vitrectomy
The next lesson in our 25 part curriculum series is focused on performing an anterior vitrectomy. You can see the…