Surgical Techniques
Educational surgical demonstrations and explanations.
Cataract Intraop
A surgical tour of cataract surgery in the operating room, from routine to complex, including damaged zonule and capsule cases and sutured IOLs.
Cornea Transplants
The principal types of corneal transplants: PK, DALK, DMEK and DSAEK.
Glaucoma Surgery
Emergency procedures like paracentesis and wound burps, MIGS procedures in the operating room, and fistulizing surgeries such as XEN and glaucoma tubes.
Lock & Load: Injection for Infection
Treating endothelial-side corneal ulcers with stromal injection in the operating room.
Floss Your Eye! (Ninja KPro 3)
A technique borrowed from dentistry to clean debris from under the rim of a KPro, to prevent inflammation and infection.
DMEK Preparation (2014)
DMEK graft preparation using modifications to the Giebel SCUBA technique.
DMEK Insertion (2014)
DMEK insertion strategies: host preparation, insertion and opening, using modifications to the Giebel microbubble technique.
Flange Loops: Perfect Centration & Rotation (Suture Any IOL 2)
7-0 Prolene with 30-gauge ultra-wide lumen needles to save a dislocated in-the-bag IOL, with tips for ideal centration and rotation.
Sulcus Sabotage: Plan a PI for Your Posterior Partner
Posterior capsule openings, a 3-piece sulcus IOL, optic capture when possible, and planning a PI.
Death Dive: The Dual Ripcord Baerveldt
A Baerveldt glaucoma tube placed with two ripcord sutures.
Glaucoma Tube Touching Endothelium & Scar Growing into Ahmed Valve
Long scleral tunnels can avoid the need for a patch graft.
GSL When the View Is Bad (Goniosynechialysis)
A narrow angle undetected until angle closure, with significant edema. How to handle angle synechiae and avoid a "perfect storm" after a PI.