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What is the role of bilateral same-day cataract surgery in your practice?

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What is the role of bilateral same-day cataract surgery in your practice?

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Ophthalmology · Boston Vision
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Like many things in medicine, sometimes there are mental hurdles to jump over that are more challenging than operational or evidence-based hurdles. We perform many invasive procedures, bilateral same day: laser vision correction, intravitreal injections, phakic IOLs, etc. Yet many of us, myself incl...

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Ophthalmology · Massachusetts Eye and Ear
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We have been rolling out an Immediate Bilateral Cataract Surgery (ISBCS) program here at VA Boston and overall the results have been very favorable. We’ve done 80+ patients- enrollment has been slowed by strict inclusion criteria (even a tiny ERM will exclude them due to mild increased risk for pCME...

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