1336: behind the scenes: inside my OR 2

In this video I am showing the microscope view of the cataract surgery that was performed in video 1335. If … More

1312: focus on what is important

After a long day of surgery, I was telling a friend that I felt exhausted. And he remarked that since … More

Don’t be fooled into thinking that there is not much to be learned from watching a routine cataract case. As … More

I enjoy performing routine cataract surgery as much as challenging or unusual cases. There is a beauty and elegance in … More

Becoming efficient in the operating room is not easy and it takes years to truly hone your craft. Remember that … More

The surgeon is the captain of the operating room and must know everything about the case and instrumentation. While we … More

This a complete cataract case, shown start to finish, for a young patient (age is early 30s) who has an … More

Our guest surgeon today shows us a very nice vertical chop technique. This works well if the nucleus has a … More

Not every ophthalmologist becomes proficient with phaco chop during residency training and that is acceptable since it can be learned … More

It is always a pleasure to do cataract surgery for a fellow cataract surgeon. This is the highest compliment that … More

In our Complete Cataract Case series, we present the technique of phaco flip. This is a great technique for a … More

From our Complete Cataract Case series, this is a video of a patient with pseudo-exfoliation syndrome which can make the … More

From our Complete Cataract Case series, this is a video of a routine phaco chop case. It is not cherry … More

The pre-chopper is an instrument that can be used to split a cataract prior to inserting the phaco probe. It … More

Despite more than a decade of use and hundreds of published papers, there is still some controversy as to the potential … More

This is a routine case performed by a surgeon who has done 2000 cataract surgeries. The technique here is excellent … More

If you know a variety of different phaco techniques, it is easy to switch gears and shift to something that … More

The Ultra-chopper was designed by Dr Luis Escaf in order to penetrate a very dense nucleus to chop a cataract. … More

With CataractCoach, I am sharing everything that I have learned or figured out during the past 25 years in ophthalmology. … More

This video was sent to us from Dr Felipe Ribeiro and Dr Andre Berger from Brazil and it features the … More