What happens during cataract surgery

What happens during cataract surgery

Patients often wonder what happens during cataract surgery.   The procedure is a well orchestrated procedure and in talented hands, such as Dr. Malitz’s it is generally a ten minute procedure.   First

  1. You are registered
  2. You are brought back to the clinical pre-op area
  3. Often you will change clothes and put on a hospital gown
  4. A nurse will obtain information about your medical and eye history
  5. The nurse will follow the doctor’s orders getting vital signs and give you eye drops
  6. When your eye is dilated, you will be brought to the operating room
  7. You will lie flat and be positioned on the operating room table flat on your back (let the staff know if you have trouble lying flat)
  8. If you wish you will be given medications to mildly sedate you
  9. The area around your eye will be cleaned with Betadine 10{60df113cd5a1cd00914727638812fb5300a840b86aa020a6e915251c64286fee} (let staff know if you are allergic to iodine or shell fish)
  10. A plastic drape will be placed around your eye
  11. A spring will be placed to hold your eye open
  12. Numbing drops (but no needles or injections) will be placed in the eye
  13. A small incision will be created in a three plane fashion and a side incision
  14. The eye will be filled with a jelly like substance
  15. The front of the lens will be peeled away to get access to the Cataract
  16. The lens will be vaporized with sound waves
  17. The remnants will be vacuumed from the eye
  18. A foldable lens will be placed where the cataract was to correct your vision (let the staff know prior to surgery if you would like to see without glasses and a special lens can be used)
  19. The wounds are hydrated and checked for leaks, the spring is removed
  20. You are given more drops and transferred to the recovery area
  21. You are discharged