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s the attendees made their way into Day 3 of the 40th Congress of the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (ESCRS 2022) they were met at the doors by a wall of raucous pop music from a nearby concert. The fact that many of the day’s visitors had chosen to swap their more formal footwear for sneakers (with many a pair of white Adidas in sight) tied in well with the day’s apparent theme of energy and vitality. The day was all about getting moving, boosting things and clearing volumes.
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High Volume Cataract Surgery featured some of ESCRS’s most prominent figures, including current President Prof. Dr. Oliver Findl and Past President Prof. Dr. Rudy Nuijts — but some of the biggest stars were the speakers. The first
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presentation was given by Dr. Eric Donnenfeld, a renowned cataract specialist from Long Island, New York, who reported that dropless cataract surgery is the way forward. We’re all familiar with poor patient compliance after all, and he started his speech by inviting the audience to “ask their patients to demonstrate how they apply eye drops,” if they wanted to enjoy a good laugh.
Eye drop-free = stress-free His point made, Dr. Donnenfeld said the best approach is to aim for a minimal amount of eye drops or go fully dropless altogether, and one of the solutions he recommends is the nepafenac Cont. on Page 4 >>