Dr. Randall Olson is Chairman and Professor of Ophthalmology at the Moran Eye Institute at the University of Utah in…
1874: challenging rescue of a dislocated IOL
In this case, the IOL is falling back into the vitreous cavity and it is certainly entangled with the vitreous.…
1873: who so much surge during phaco?
Time for a CataractQuiz: watch the video and you will see a tremendous amount of post-occlusion surge during phaco. When…
1872: the new triple: Phaco, IOL, DMEK
The typical “triple” procedure was performing phaco, IOL implantation, and a full-thickness corneal transplant. And this still has an important…
1871: the posterior capsule just ruptured…
It happens to ALL cataract surgeons: the posterior capsule ruptures and there is vitreous prolapse while cataract material is still…
1870: three cases of sudden trouble…
In this video we present three cases of sudden trouble: (1) the IOL pops out of the capsular bag, (2)…
1869: posterior polar with EDOF IOL
This patient has a congenital posterior polar cataract which has recently worsened and become more opaque. It is certainly limiting…
1868: PodCast 12: Amar Agarwal MD
Dr Amar Agarwal is a surgeon, innovator, educator, author, and leader in ophthalmology and he has changed the way we…
1867: pinhole pupilloplasty technique
Patients are often amazed by the magic of the pinhole in addressing refractive issues when we check visual acuity in…
1866: suggestions for the soft nucleus
In this case our guest surgeon is performing cataract surgery on a soft nucleus. These surgeries can be tricky because…
1865: pre-placement of the chopper
One of the challenges in learning horizontal phaco chop is that there is only a small window of time, usually…
1864: single incision phaco surgery
Our guest surgeon performs this routine cataract surgery with just one incision. There is no paracentesis incision and therefore no…
1863: technique of using Piggyback IOLs
Piggyback IOL refers to a second IOL that is placed in the eye so that there are now two lens…
1862: nanophthalmic eye cataract surgery
Experienced cataract surgeons know that the most challenging cataract cases are often the nanophthalmic eyes. These tiny eyes have a…
1861: curriculum lesson 25: refractive cataract surgery
The final lesson in our 25 part curriculum series is focused on refractive cataract surgery. You can see the entire…
1860: Canabrava double flanged technique
I was recently at the BRASCRS cataract and refractive surgery meeting in Saõ Paulo, Brazil and I saw an amazing…
1859: MSICS with iris & lens coloboma
This is a tough case of a dense cataract in a patient with an iris and lens coloboma. This means…
1858: MSICS dense brunescent cataract
With a dense brunescent cataract, the beauty of MSICS is that no ultrasonic energy is needed to break apart the…
1857: MSICS with lens snare / lens loop
We recently showed a video of a surgeon dividing the nucleus in half in the anterior chamber using a cystotome…
1856: MSICS with temporal approach
While the most common location for the MSICS incision is superior, we can also make this incision at the temporal…
1855: MSICS with small pupils & weak corneas
All this week we are featuring cases of MSICS: manual small incision cataract surgery. The incision is not all that…
1854: PodCast 11: Samuel Masket MD
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…