lenses, with 90% saying they now offer
toric IOLs and 85% offering multifocal
IOLs. Quarter-diopter-step lenses are
also finding their way, with 31% now
making them available. Overall,
advanced IOLs achieved runner-up sta-
tus when it came to naming the most
significant innovation of recent years.
In the quest to achieve more and more precise outcomes, arcuate
corneal incisions (47%), digital marking through the microscope (25%)
and intraoperative wavefront aberrometry (17%) are also finding
increasing numbers of believers. Among our other survey findings:
• Surgeons are still a hard sell when it comes to guarded ophthalmic
scalpels, with 64% of respondents saying they're never used at their
facilities, and another 12% saying they're used in fewer than half of all
cases. They just don't like the feel, say most of the resisters, with high
cost and resistance to change also frequently cited as reasons.
• Preloaded IOL-injection systems have made their way into about
one-fourth of our respondents' practices and get very high marks
when it comes to efficiency, infection control and surgeon satisfac-
tion, but slightly lower marks when it comes to cost.
• The vast majority of facilities are taking care of their surgeons'
ergonomic needs, with 87% offering "heads-up" surgery — rather than
being tethered to the optical eyepiece of the microscope, surgeons
view high-definition displays of the surgical field of view in real-time
on a 3D flat-panel display — 93% providing microscopes with
adjustable oculars and 88% offering ergonomically engineered surgeon
chairs. OSM
E-mail jburger@outpatientsurgery.net.
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Pamela
Bevelhymer,
RN,
BSN
z GOAL ORIENTED Advanced lenses and innovative tech-
niques are part of the quest for more precise outcomes.
