Surgical efficiency in femtosecond laser cataract surgery compared with phacoemulsification cataract surgery: a case-control study.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVES:To investigate differences in surgical time, the distance the surgical instrument travelled and number of movements required to complete manual phacoemulsification cataract surgery versus femtosecond laser cataract surgery. DESIGN:Non-randomised comparative case series. SETTING:Single surgery site, Moorfields Eye Hospital, UK. PARTICIPANTS:40 cataract surgeries of 40 patients. INTERVENTIONS:Laser-assisted and manual phacoemulsification cataract surgery. Laser-assisted surgery cases were performed using the AMO Catalys platform. PRIMARY AND SECONDARY OUTCOME MEASURES:Computer vision tracking software PhacoTracking were applied to the recordings to establish the distance the instrument travelled, total number of movements (the number of times an instrument stops and starts moving)

SUBMITTER: Day AC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5855332 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature