Phaco Fundamentals: Phacodynamics for Challenging Cataracts

CME Activity Pricing

ASCRS Member Price: FREE
Nonmember Price:  FREE

ASCRS gratefully acknowledges the unrestricted educational grants received in support of this program from Alcon and Johnson & Johnson.

Description

This program will review principles for adjusting and optimizing phaco machine settings and techniques for both routine and complex cases. Special attention will be given to surgical strategies for rock hard cataracts and complicated cases. Videos will include cases being performed with 4 different phaco machines.

Credits: By completing this activity you will earn 2.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.
Duration: 120 minutes
Activity Expiration Date: June 30, 2026

Faculty

David F. Chang, MD, ABO	Sri Ganesh, FRCS, MS, DNB	Kourtney H. Houser, MD, ABO	Sumitra S. Khandelwal, MD, ABO

Lisa Park, MD, ABO	Jeff Pettey, MD, MBA

Learning Objectives

Ophthalmologists attending this program should be able to:

• Understand fundamental vacuum pump settings and ultrasound modulation for phaco and when to modify them.
• Understand how to modify platform-specific phaco settings for white cataracts
• Understand nuclear disassembly techniques and strategies for white cataracts
• List strategies for complex phaco cases and the principles of how and why settings and techniques may need adjustment