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In many eye departments it is routine to ask patients to lie completely flat for cataract surgery. However, many patients prefer not to lie completely flat, if given the choice. It is our practice to ensure patients are in a comfortable position before commencing surgery. We conducted a prospective observational study of our routine practice comprising 125 consecutive cataract operations conducted by a single surgeon with local anaesthesia (occasional phaco under general anaesthetic was not included). All patients were initially positioned lying flat on the reclining chair and were given the option of staying in that position throughout the operation or having the chair-back raised until they were comfortable. Only 27% (34 patients of 125 total) were happy to lie flat (angle between 0 degrees and 5 degrees ). The majority of our patients (62%--78 patients) preferred to sit up slightly, with the chair-back 10 degrees to 25 degrees above the horizontal; 8% (10 patients) of the patients were sited at an angle of 30 degrees to 35 degrees and 2% (three patients) needed to be sited at 35 degrees or more. Patients who sat up above 30 degrees generally had a medical reason such as orthopnoea (3%--four patients), back pain (5%--six patients), anxiety (2%--two patients), Meniere's disease (1%--one patient). Patients who sat up below 25 degrees chose this position for comfort or preference. Our results show that patient preferences for positioning during cataract phaco-emulsification under topical-intracameral anaesthesia should increase overall patient satisfaction without the need to compromise safety.
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PMID:Patients' preferences for positioning during phaco-emulsification under topical-intracameral anaesthesia. 1978 58

We present a case of extreme positioning for cataract surgery. The 68-year-old man was unable to lie flat and found it difficult to transfer from his motorized wheelchair. He had poor mobility due to a stroke, slept upright because of orthopnea, and his neck extension was poor. After the options and risks were discussed, surgery was performed under topical intracameral anesthesia using face-to-face positioning with the patient seated upright in his wheelchair. The operating microscope was rotated toward the horizontal, and the surgeon stood at the patient's side with the patient's face almost upright. The right-handed surgeon used a temporal corneal incision (0 degree) in the left eye and an inferior incision (270 degrees) in the right eye. Surgery and recovery were uneventful. Given a preexisting epiretinal membrane in the left eye, the patient was very happy with the uncorrected distance visual acuity outcome of 6/9 in the right eye and 6/18 in the left eye.
J Cataract Refract Surg 2013 May
PMID:Extreme face-to-face positioning for cataract surgery with patient seated upright in motorized wheelchair. 2346 49