Another video for our series of Complete Cataract Cases, we present a surgery of me operating. During this surgery, I performed a vertical chop and it seemed like a good chop, but there was difficulty in removing the nuclear halves. Why?
Click below to find out why this chop seemed good but…
What gauge is your phaco needle? I’m thinking about going to a smaller gauge. I know it will slow things down a bit but I’m wondering if it will make chopping easier..?
usually 20g, but that’s usually not the limiting step of doing phaco chop