Office-based surgery coming sooner than you think
In his latest blog, Mark Packer, MD, predicts why performing cataract surgery in minor procedure rooms will become the next big push in ophthalmology.
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Surgeons say that patients love the convenience, and Kaiser is reaping the benefit of significant cost savings.1
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More than 20,000 cataract cases have been performed since 2006 in Kaiser minor procedure rooms in Colorado. He states that 60% to 70% of these are performed in both eyes on the same day, using only topical anesthesia and oral sedation with sublingual Halcion.
“We have had no endophthalmitis,” he noted.
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