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Phacoemulsification Training
Katherine Masselos, MBBS;
Katelyn J.Y. Lee, MBBS;
Tani M. Brown, MBBS;
Louis W. Wang, MBBS;
Edwin C. Figueira, MS;
Vivek B. Pandya, MBBS;
Ian C. Francis, FASOPRS
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In the article by Randleman et al,1 it was of concern that there were no significant improvements in postoperative visual acuity outcomes during residency training.
As expected, the complication rate during phacoemulsification improved during residency training. There were more cases of posterior capsule tears and vitreous loss in the first 80 cases performed by the residents, with the former rate decreasing from 6.3% to 3.5%. Their Figure 2 indicates that the posterior capsule tear rate peaked at more than 10% after 40 cases. It was not until after the 160th case that the rates for these complications stabilized.
In one of the author's first 1000 cases of phacoemulsification surgery,2 studied prospectively and consecutively, the complication rate was compared between the first 150 cases . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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