Lighting It Up

In the October 2023 edition of the Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, Dr. Youngsub Eom and colleagues showed that patients preferred illumination from the inside of the eye rather than the outside.

Conventional eye surgery often relies on a microscope with bright lights shining down on the patient’s eyeball. These bright lights certainly can seem bright and uncomfortable to patients. Dr. Eom et al. compared an illuminated instrument system to a conventional lighting paradigm, and they found that patients who had surgery with the illuminated instrument were less anxious and more cooperative.