PHACOSIT: A sitting phacoemulsification technique for patients unable to lie down flat during cataract surgery
Phacoemulsification is routinely performed with the patient lying supine on the surgical table with his or her head flat and facing the overhead microscope. This routine technique can be a challenge in medical conditions such as kyphosis, scoliosis, orthopnea, Meniere's disease, and CNS abnorma...
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| author | Jebinth Brayan Prithvi Chandrakanth Siddharth Narendran Kalpana Narendran Venkatapathy Narendran |
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| description | Phacoemulsification is routinely performed with the patient lying supine on the surgical table with his or her head flat and facing the overhead microscope. This routine technique can be a challenge in medical conditions such as kyphosis, scoliosis, orthopnea, Meniere's disease, and CNS abnormality. Some cardiovascular and respiratory conditions make the patients breathless when they lie down, whereas other neurological and spinal problem patients are also equally uncomfortable. The only reasonable solution to conduct surgery on a patient who cannot lie down flat on the operating table is to position them face to face in a sitting position. We describe an innovative phacoemulsification technique in a sitting position called “phacosit” in an 80-year-old wheelchair-bound female patient who was denied cataract surgery by other eye surgeons owing to her medical condition. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-34595e9034e9498ea86c7984c23a8e612022-12-22T03:03:01ZengWolters Kluwer Medknow PublicationsIndian Journal of Ophthalmology0301-47381998-36892022-01-017041396140110.4103/ijo.IJO_2639_21PHACOSIT: A sitting phacoemulsification technique for patients unable to lie down flat during cataract surgeryJebinth BrayanPrithvi ChandrakanthSiddharth NarendranKalpana NarendranVenkatapathy NarendranPhacoemulsification is routinely performed with the patient lying supine on the surgical table with his or her head flat and facing the overhead microscope. This routine technique can be a challenge in medical conditions such as kyphosis, scoliosis, orthopnea, Meniere's disease, and CNS abnormality. Some cardiovascular and respiratory conditions make the patients breathless when they lie down, whereas other neurological and spinal problem patients are also equally uncomfortable. The only reasonable solution to conduct surgery on a patient who cannot lie down flat on the operating table is to position them face to face in a sitting position. We describe an innovative phacoemulsification technique in a sitting position called “phacosit” in an 80-year-old wheelchair-bound female patient who was denied cataract surgery by other eye surgeons owing to her medical condition.http://www.ijo.in/article.asp?issn=0301-4738;year=2022;volume=70;issue=4;spage=1396;epage=1401;aulast=Brayancataract surgeryface to faceiol implantationphacoemulsificationsitting phacoemulsification |
| spellingShingle | Jebinth Brayan Prithvi Chandrakanth Siddharth Narendran Kalpana Narendran Venkatapathy Narendran PHACOSIT: A sitting phacoemulsification technique for patients unable to lie down flat during cataract surgery Indian Journal of Ophthalmology cataract surgery face to face iol implantation phacoemulsification sitting phacoemulsification |
| title | PHACOSIT: A sitting phacoemulsification technique for patients unable to lie down flat during cataract surgery |
| title_full | PHACOSIT: A sitting phacoemulsification technique for patients unable to lie down flat during cataract surgery |
| title_fullStr | PHACOSIT: A sitting phacoemulsification technique for patients unable to lie down flat during cataract surgery |
| title_full_unstemmed | PHACOSIT: A sitting phacoemulsification technique for patients unable to lie down flat during cataract surgery |
| title_short | PHACOSIT: A sitting phacoemulsification technique for patients unable to lie down flat during cataract surgery |
| title_sort | phacosit a sitting phacoemulsification technique for patients unable to lie down flat during cataract surgery |
| topic | cataract surgery face to face iol implantation phacoemulsification sitting phacoemulsification |
| url | http://www.ijo.in/article.asp?issn=0301-4738;year=2022;volume=70;issue=4;spage=1396;epage=1401;aulast=Brayan |
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