Immediately Sequential Bilateral Cataract Surgery

1st Edition

by Steve A. Arshinoff (Editor), Charles Claoue (Editor), Bjorn Johansson (Editor), David Perez-Silguero (Editor), Susan Ruyu Qi (Editor), Mike Yuan Chen (Editor), Melanie Hebert (Editor)

Immediately Sequential Bilateral Cataract Surgery (ISBCS): Global History and Methodology is a comprehensive guide for the safe and efficient performance of ISBCS. It provides an overview of the history, recommended protocols, necessary precautions, exclusion criteria, benefits and risks associated with this procedure, organizational standards, and more.

Written by the most prominent ISBCS surgeons in the world, chapters recount the arguments for and against bilateral surgery that have been made throughout the ages, up to the present, and deliver achieved and proposed resolutions to all problems discussed. Topics such as ethics and medico-legal issues surrounding ISBCS are also discussed, and a chapter on the global evolution of bilateral cataract surgery provides readers with a complete overview of the development of ISBCS practices in countries from all continents.