1223: how to set up your phaco machine

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

1207: soft PSC cataract technique

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

Flip and chop is a great phaco technique for a lens nucleus of moderate density. In a very safe and … More

Take the CataractCoach challenge: perform a cataract surgery while keeping the light reflex (Purkinje image) in the central zone of … More

In this complete cataract case, we are going to slow it down a bit and show you the subtleties that … More

While we need viscoelastic to perform a safe cataract surgery, we do not typically want to leave this OVD inside … More

In cases where we perform hydro-delineation and we have a separate epi-nuclear shell to remove, what is the best technique. … More