Day, AC;
Smith, PR;
Tang, HL;
Aiello, F;
Hussain, B;
Maurino, V;
Marshall, J;
(2018)
Surgical efficiency in femtosecond laser cataract surgery compared with phacoemulsification cataract surgery: a case-control study.
BMJ Open
, 8
(2)
, Article e018478. 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-018478.
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Abstract
OBJECTIVES: To investigate differences in surgical time, the distance the surgical instrument travelled and number of movements required to complete manual phacoemulsification cataract surgery versus femtosecond laser cataract surgery. DESIGN: Non-randomised comparative case series. SETTING: Single surgery site, Moorfields Eye Hospital, UK. PARTICIPANTS: 40 cataract surgeries of 40 patients. INTERVENTIONS: Laser-assisted and manual phacoemulsification cataract surgery. Laser-assisted surgery cases were performed using the AMO Catalys platform. PRIMARY AND SECONDARY OUTCOME MEASURES: Computer vision tracking software PhacoTracking were applied to the recordings to establish the distance the instrument travelled, total number of movements (the number of times an instrument stops and starts moving) and time taken for surgery steps including phacoemulsification, irrigation-aspiration (IA) and overall surgery time. The time taken for laser docking and delivery was not included in the analyses. RESULTS: Data on 19 laser-assisted and 19 manual phacoemulsification surgeries were analysed (two cases were excluded due to insufficient video-recording quality). There were no differences in the number of instrument moves, the distance the instrument travelled or time taken to complete the phacoemulsification stage. However for IA, the number of instrument moves (manual: mean 20 (SD 15) vs laser: mean 38 (SD 22), P=0.008) and time taken (manual: mean 75 s (SD 24) vs laser: mean 108 s (SD 36), P=0.003) were significantly greater for laser cases. For laser versus manual cases overall, there was no difference in number of moves or the distance the instrument travelled, but laser cases took longer (mean 88 s, P=0.049). CONCLUSIONS: Laser cataract surgery cases took longer to complete without accounting for the time taken to complete the laser procedure itself. This appears to be in part due to IA requiring more instrument manoeuvres and taking longer to complete. Data from a large randomised series would better elucidate this relationship.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Surgical efficiency in femtosecond laser cataract surgery compared with phacoemulsification cataract surgery: a case-control study |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-018478 |
| Publisher version: | http://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-018478 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © Article author(s) (or their employer(s) unless otherwise stated in the text of the article) 2018. All rights reserved. No commercial use is permitted unless otherwise expressly granted. This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
| Keywords: | cataract and refractive surgery, corneal and external diseases, ophthalmology |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Institute of Ophthalmology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10044086 |
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