Archive for February 2025

One of the most dreaded complications of eye surgery is an infection inside the eye. We do everything we can to prevent such infections, and, thankfully, these types of infections occur very rarely. And the good news is that we are winning! According to a study published in JAMA Ophthalmology by Dr. Brian VanderBeek and…

I have many glaucoma patients, as well as other patients, who wonder about their eye pressure measurements. When the left eye pressure was 13 at the last visit and is 15 at the current visit, they ask, “What happened? Why did my eye pressure go up?” Eye pressure is not static at all times. For…

Some people do procedures and surgeries faster than others. Sometimes the fast surgeons are incredibly gifted and have great outcomes. Sometimes, they do not. While there are reasons not to loiter and extend surgery time in the eye, those reasons have to do with outcomes. At the end of the day, I argue that the…

One of the topics that is getting more and more attention in ophthalmic surgery is the waste generated by eye surgeries. In the August 2024 edition of the journal Cornea, Shambhawi Thakur and colleagues published an article that noted the waste produced from corneal and conjunctival surgeries. They note that “assessing waste production form different…