Operating Room Basics

Objectives

• Describe all of the steps of cataract surgery
• Describe the "time-out" procedure performed in the OR prior to cataract surgery.
• Explain how to use the operating room microscope, including the foot pedal.
• Describe how to use the phacoemulsification foot petal

Reading

• Oetting, TA. Cataract Surgery for Greenhorns. Iowa City, IA: 2012. https://webeye.ophth.uiowa.edu/eyeforum/tutorials/greenhorns/greenhorns-handout-training-plan.pdf.
  • Chapter 3: Preoperative
  • 3.3 Operating Microscope Basics
• Oetting TA, ed Essentials of Cataract Surgery, 2nd ed. San Francisco, American Academy of Ophthalmology, 2011. (WW 39 B311 2011) Chapter 4: The Operating Microscope and surgical loupes.
  (UIHC Affilates can contact the C.S. O'Brien Librarian for reprints)
• Naseri, Ayman, ed. Basic Principals of Ophthalmic Surgery, 3rd Ed. San Francisco, American Academy of Ophthalmology, 2015. (WW 168 B311 2015) Chapter 7: The Operating Microscope and surgical loupes.
  (UIHC Affilates can contact the C.S. O'Brien Librarian for reprints)
• Recommendations of American Academy of Ophthalmology Wrong-Site Task Force - 2014
• EyeRounds.org - wrong site case

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