Main description:

Even the most experienced cataract surgeon can encounter stressful situations in the operating room. With the new edition of More Phaco Nightmares: Conquering Cataract Catastrophes, surgeons can be prepared to manage unavoidable complications with ease.

Dr. Amar Agarwal, along with over 35 of today's cataract surgery leaders, explain all there is to know about phacoemulsification and bring their extensive experience with their own surgical nightmares. The book contains 5 sections that gradually escalate from the basics to nightmares, furnishing phaco surgeons with complicated scenarios and the essential guidance to assess, manage, and resolve.

Featuring updated content and brand new, state-of-the-art chapters on a variety of complex situations, More Phaco Nightmares is the toolkit surgeons need to stay in control when facing unique and especially challenging intra- and postoperative complications.

Sample chapters include:

The Phaco Machine
Air Pump, Gas-Forced Infusion, and Active Fluidics
Intraoperative Floppy Iris Syndrome
Single-Pass Four-Throw Pupilloplasty
Management of Capsule Rupture at Cataract Surgery
Malpositioned Intraocular Lens
Optic Capture
Glued Intraocular Lens
Management and Prevention of Negative Dysphotopsia
Pseudophakic Cystoid Macular Edema

More than 350 illustrations and photographs supplement the text, providing visual as well as textual references for each case. Plus, an accompanying video website contains over 4 hours of new, original, high-quality video content, offering additional visual learning to demonstrate the techniques discussed.
Offering cutting-edge information, More Phaco Nightmares: Conquering Cataract Catastrophes will guide surgeons on how to mitigate the common problems and unanticipated disasters that may arise for even the most experienced surgeons.

Contents:

Dedication

Website Contents

Acknowledgments

About the Editor

Contributing Authors

Preface

Foreword by Elizabeth Yeu, MD

Section I Phaco: Machine and Technique

Chapter 1 The Fluidics and Physics of Phaco

Barry S. Seibel, MD

Chapter 2 The Phaco Machine

William J. Fishkind, MD, FACS

Chapter 3 Air Pump, Gas-Forced Infusion, and Active Fluidics

Priya Narang, MS, and Amar Agarwal, MS, FRCS, FRCOphth

Chapter 4 Preparing for the Transition to Phacoemulsification

Samuel Boyd, MD; Cristela F. Aleman, MD; and Benjamin F. Boyd, MD

Section II Difficult Cases

Chapter 5 Astigmatism in Cataract Surgery

Jennifer Loh, MD, and William Trattler, MD

Chapter 6 Pediatric Cataract Surgery

Rupal H. Trivedi, MD, MSCR, and M. Edward Wilson, MD

Chapter 7 Small Pupil

Priya Narang, MS, and Amar Agarwal, MS, FRCS, FRCOphth

Chapter 8 Intraoperative Floppy Iris Syndrome

Bryan S. Lee, MD, JD, and David F. Chang, MD

Chapter 9 Posterior Polar Cataracts

Khoa Pham, MD; Sanjay Kedhar, MD; and Sumit (Sam) Garg, MD

Chapter 10 Subluxated Cataract

Priya Narang, MS, and Amar Agarwal, MS, FRCS, FRCOphth

Chapter 11 Phacoemulsification in White Cataract

Abhay R. Vasavada, MS, FRCS (England); Vaishali Vasavada, MS; and Samaresh Srivastava, DNB

Chapter 12 Iris Reconstruction

David T. Truong, MD, and Kevin M. Miller, MD

Chapter 13 Single-Pass Four-Throw Pupilloplasty

Priya Narang, MS, and Amar Agarwal, MS, FRCS, FRCOphth

Chapter 14 Combined Cataract and Glaucoma Surgery

Kevin R. Tozer, MD, and Thomas W. Samuelson, MD

Section III Posterior Capsule Rupture: What Next?

Chapter 15 Trocar Anterior Chamber Maintainer: An Improvised New Concept of Infusion

Amar Agarwal, MS, FRCS, FRCOphth, and Priya Narang, MS

Chapter 16 Management of Capsule Rupture at Cataract Surgery

Steve Charles, MD

Chapter 17 Intraocular Lens Scaffold

Priya Narang, MS, and Amar Agarwal, MS, FRCS, FRCOphth

Chapter 18 Dropped Nucleus

Priya Narang, MS, and Amar Agarwal, MS, FRCS, FRCOphth

Chapter 19 Malpositioned Intraocular Lens

Ashvin Agarwal, MBBS, MS, and Amar Agarwal, MS, FRCS, FRCOphth

Chapter 20 Posterior Capsule Rupture and Posterior Polar Cataracts

Samaresh Srivastava, DNB, and Abhay R. Vasavada, MS, FRCS (England)

Section IV Intraocular Implantation in Eyes With Deficient Capsules

Chapter 21 Optic Capture

Thomas A. Oetting, MS, MD

Chapter 22 Iris Suturing of an Intraocular Lens

Yassine Daoud, MD, FACS, and Walter J. Stark, MD

Chapter 23 Scleral-Fixated Intraocular Lens

Daniel C. Terveen, MD, and John P. Berdahl, MD

Chapter 24 Glued Intraocular Lens

Athiya Agarwal, MD, DO, FRSH, and Amar Agarwal, MS, FRCS, FRCOphth

Chapter 25 Flanged Intrascleral Intraocular Lens Fixation With Double-Needle Technique

Shin Yamane, MD, PhD

Section V Miscellaneous

Chapter 26 Complications of Femtosecond Laser-Assisted Cataract Surgery

Soosan Jacob, MS, FRCS, DNB, and Amar Agarwal, MS, FRCS, FRCOphth

Chapter 27 Bullous Keratopathy Managed With Endothelial Keratoplasty Including Pre-Descemet's Endothelial Keratoplasty

Dhivya Ashok Kumar, MD, FICO, FAICO, and Amar Agarwal, MS, FRCS, FRCOphth

Chapter 28 Management and Prevention of Negative Dysphotopsia

Samuel Masket, MD, and Nicole R. Fram, MD

Chapter 29 Pseudophakic Cystoid Macular Edema

J. Fernando Arevalo, MD, FACS; Carlos F. Fernandez, MD; and
Fernando A. Arevalo, BS

Chapter 30 Postoperative Endophthalmitis, Toxic Anterior Segment Syndrome, and Other Postoperative Inflammatory Syndromes

Michael N. Cohen, MD, and Andre J. Witkin, MD

Chapter 31 Vitrectomy-Assisted Phacoemulsification

Ashvin Agarwal, MBBS, MS; Priya Narang, MS; and Amar Agarwal, MS, FRCS, FRCOphth

Financial Disclosures

Index