With a cortical cataract, patients are very symptomatic, particularly if the cortical opacities are within the visual axis. These tend … More
Category: complete cases
Complete Case: a very special patient
As a surgeon, it is always an honor when a colleague trusts you to operate on his eyes or on … More
Complete Case: loose zonular support
Another great video in our series of Complete Cataract Cases: a dense cataract in the setting of loose zonular support. … More
Complete Case: vertical phaco chop
Another complete cataract case, this time showing the vertical chop technique to split the cataract into two halves. This is … More
Complete Case: Efficient Phaco Chop
Another great video in our series of Complete Cataract Cases. You’ll be able to learn from the very first incision … More
Complete Case: Floppy Iris & Loose Zonules
There is a benefit to watching a video of a complete cataract case, from start to finish. This is particularly … More
Complete Case: PXF supra-capsular chop
The previous case (reference 611) from yesterday, showed the first eye of this patient where the technique was phaco chop … More
Complete Case: PXF chop in the bag
Today (video 611) and tomorrow (video 616) are the two eyes of the same patient who has pseudo-exfoliation syndrome and … More
Show me a beautiful cataract surgery
Here on CataractCoach.com we have hundreds of teaching videos, and many of them are of very complex or complicated cases … More
Benchmark: Senior Resident Chop
This is a good benchmark for what a senior resident should be able to achieve by the end of residency … More
Seems like a good chop but…
Another video for our series of Complete Cataract Cases, we present a surgery of me operating. During this surgery, I … More
Complete Case: Soft Cortical Cataract
Another addition to our series on Complete Cataract Cases is this technique for soft cortical cataracts. These cataracts are typically … More
Complete Case: Cataract in a Small Eye
Looking at this picture, we can see that the corneal diameter is very small compared to the size of the … More
Manual SICS with nucleus bisection
SICS is small incision cataract surgery, and it refers to a method of manual expression of the nucleus through a … More
Complete Case: Chop in the Bag
Again we have a complete case, from start to finish, showing a routine cataract surgery with a phaco chop technique. … More
Complete Case: Flomax & Toric IOL
Many of our CataractCoach.com readers have been asking for complete cases, shown from start to finish. There is a lot … More
Complete Case: Brunescent & White Cataract
This patient truly needs our help. She developed a cataract in the right eye a few years ago and was … More
Review: Side View of Hand Position
While we do hold the phaco probe with a pencil grip, we do not use the same angle as writing with … More
Complete Case: Dense PSC & Shallow AC
This is a complete case, shown from start to finish. For many of our CataractCoach viewers, particularly the surgeons with … More
Mastering Divide-and-Conquer Phaco
Back by popular demand! Most beginning surgeons start by learning divide-and-conquer as the primary method of nucleus division for cataract … More
Cataract Surgery in a 100-year-old patient
We should all be so lucky to live to 100 years old. It’s quite a rarity and it is something … More
Phaco Chop in the bag with smaller pupils
In many of the prior videos related to smaller pupils, I have emphasized the technique of bringing the nucleus partially … More
Phaco Flip & Chop is great for Beverly Hills Cataracts
Often, the density of the nucleus and the severity of the cataract relates to the patient’s access to healthcare. In … More
SupraCapsular Technique for Softer Nuclei
For a relatively soft nucleus, such as in a younger patient with primarily posterior subcapsular cataract changes, the supracapsular technique … More
Tilt and Tumble Phaco Technique
The Tilt and Tumble phaco technique is a very efficient and safe method of nucleus removal. First described many years … More
Flip and Chop Phaco is Ideal for Routine Cases
The flip and chop phaco technique has been presented here before on many occasions because it is such an efficient … More
Horizontal Phaco Chop for Efficient Cataract Surgery
The original phaco chop technique described by Dr. Nagahara in 1995 was the horizontal chop. This involves holding the lens … More
Flip and Chop for Highly Efficient Cataract Surgery
Phaco flip is an efficient procedure since the initial hydro-dissection brings the nucleus out of the capsular bag. If we … More
Four Quadrant Chop & Conquer Technique
Many ophthalmologists in training start out by learning the four quadrant divide-and-conquer technique, which has a long history of being … More
Routine Phaco Chop Cataract Surgery
Continuing with our series about routine cataract cases, today we present a routine phaco chop surgery. The cataract is chopped … More
Flip and Chop early in the Learning Curve
Phaco Chop is my preferred technique of nucleus removal during cataract surgery because it is safe, efficient, and uses much … More
Divide-and-Conquer Technique
To facilitate removal of the cataract nucleus with the phaco probe, it is helpful to divide it into quadrants or … More
Stop-and-Chop Technique for Cataract Surgery
The Stop-and-Chop technique for nucleus removal during cataract surgery blends aspects of the Divide-and-Conquer method with some Phaco Chop. Some … More