VA Wet Lab Session 8: Vitreous Loss and ECCE

Objectives:

• To practice managing vitreous loss during cataract surgery in a Kitaro eye
• Describe steps for conversion to ECCE
• Describe steps for anterior vitrectomy

Resources

• Henderson BA. Essentials of Cataract Surgery, second edition. Thorofare, NJ: Slack Inc., 2014. (WW 260 E78 2014). isbn 978-1-61711-0672
  • Chapter 25, Capsular Complications, pages 281-292
  • Chapter 21, Extracapsular Cataract Extraction, pages 219-234
• Access to wet lab
• Anterior Vitrectomy tutorial
• ECCE tutorial
• Anterior vitrectomy videos
• Anterior vitrectomy
• Anterior vitrectomy tips
• Detecting vitreous loss
• Close the chamber
• IOL Scaffold
• Almost done
• Dropped early
• Radial goes south
• Late PC tear
• Whip it whip it good
• Let me take over
• Looks like a hole
• Don?t shizzle a hole?
• Being too helpful
• MA50 in sulcus with optic capture
• ECCE videos
• Convert to ECCE
• Half a conversion
• Black lens convert to ECCE
• ECCE Conversion

Review Questions for Oral Exam

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