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Cataract surgery takes longer in functionally monocular patients
Andrés A Rodriguez1, Michael D Olson, Kevin M Miller
1Jules Stein Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, 90095-7002, USA.
Background And Objectives:
To determine differences in the amount of work involved in caring for functionally monocular patients who undergo cataract surgery compared with binocularly sighted patients.
Patients And Methods:
This was a retrospective study that included 100 consecutive functionally monocular patients and 100 binocularly sighted control patients matched by age (+/-5 years) and date of surgery ( +/-1 year). Office records were reviewed to determine several measures of office and operating room work effort.
Results:
There was no difference between groups in preoperative telephone calls (P = .136), postoperative telephone calls (P = .580), preoperative office visits (P = .875), postoperative office visits (P = .601), or the number of times surgery was scheduled (P = 1.00). Monocular patients required more time for surgery (37.4 minutes) than binocular patients (32.4 minutes) (P= .010).
Conclusions:
It takes longer to perform cataract surgery on functionally monocular patients than on binocularly sighted patients.
