Efficient Surgery : It ’ s About More Than Just Speed

Surgical efficiency is often regarded as a measure of how quickly we surgeons can get inside an eye, remove the cataract, and close the case. We may also consider how quietly we can execute the maneuvers as well. Efficient movements within the surgical field are more likely to affect the safety of an outcome than the total time we are moving around the anterior chamber. In this article, I present a recent case to demonstrate that using the right tools and techniques increases surgical efficiency, even in potentially complicated cataract cases, and how this increased efficiency had a positive effect on the safety of the procedure.