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

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...

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...