How can RAAB be used to improve cataract services? RAAB is a method for rapidly assessing visual acuity.2 People aged 50 years and above are randomly selected from a population. They undergo visual acuity screening and those who are found to have problems with their vision are examined by an eye care professional to determine the most likely cause. To date, more than one hundred RAAB surveys ha...

BACKGROUND The Wilmer General Eye Services (GES) at the Johns Hopkins Hospital is the clinic where residents provide supervised comprehensive medical and surgical care to ophthalmology patients. The clinic schedule and supervision structure allows for a progressive increase in trainee responsibility, with graduated autonomy and longitudinal continuity of care over the three years of ophthalmolo...

PURPOSE Coexisting pseudoexfoliation glaucoma (PEXG) and cataract represents a special challenge. Although phacotrabeculectomy is an effective procedure, it combines the risks of phacoemulsification and trabeculectomy. This study evaluates phacoviscocanalostomy to manage eyes with PEXG and cataract. METHODS We conducted a prospective noncomparative study that included 30 consecutive eyes of 2...

This study was to evaluate the post operative astigmatism and visual acuity of patients after extra capsular extraction (ECCE) and phacoemulsification (PE) for the purpose of recommending the appropriate referral time for cataract extraction. Subject's hospital file data comprising 30 ECCE and 48 PE were collected and recorded according to gender and the technique employed in the surgical proce...

Purpose To estimate the prevalence and causes of blindness and visual impairment, cataract surgical coverage (CSC), visual outcome of cataract surgery, and barriers to uptake cataract surgery in Timor-Leste. Method In a nationwide rapid assessment of avoidable blindness (RAAB), the latest population (1,066,409) and household data were used to create a sampling frame which consists of 2,227 po...

The burden of global cataract blindness continues to rise, because the number of surgical ophthalmologists is insufficient, and they are unevenly distributed. There is an urgent need to train surgeons quickly and comprehensively in high-quality, low-cost cataract removal techniques. The authors suggest manual small-incision cataract surgery as a safe alternative to phacoemulsification cataract ...

Coexisting glaucoma and cataract is a common eye disorder in elderly population. Recent advances in the management of patients with coexisting cataract and glaucoma offer a promising alternative in patients with uncontrolled glaucoma and a cataract and provide an individualized treatment depending upon patient's characteristics and intraocular pressure (IOP). Based on many significant studies t...

AIM To analyse the outcome of high volume cataract surgery in a developing country, community based, high volume eye hospital. METHODS In a non-comparative interventional case series, the authors reviewed the surgical outcomes of 593 patients with cataract operated upon by three high volume surgeons on six randomly selected days. There were 318 female (54%) and 275 male (46%) patients. Their ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the use of the Human Reliability Analysis of Cataract Surgery tool to identify the frequency and pattern of technical errors observed during phacoemulsification cataract extraction by surgeons with varying levels of experience. DESIGN Observational cohort study. Thirty-three consecutive phacoemulsification cataract operations were performed by 33 different ophthalmic sur...