Evaluating the Predictability of Postoperative Target Refraction Using the Prototype of a New Intraoperative...

Despite all the progress in cataract and refractive lens surgery, refractive surprise is common in clinical practice. A significant postoperative refractive error is particularly annoying - and contributes to the patient's dissatisfaction with the procedure and the surgeon - when a multifocal IOL, an EDOF-IOL or a toric IOL has been implanted. The relatively new technology of intraoperative aberrometry offers the surgeon the option to intraoperatively measure the eye and its refraction, either directly after lens extraction and/or following IOL implantation. Currently, three different systems are available. In a number of studies, the technology has shown a better refractive predictability than preoperative biometry. Besides giving an evaluation of the prototype of a new intraoperative aberrometer, the I-O-W-A system, we also present our results on the influence of the kind of anaesthesia chosen and of two different IOL designs on the predictability of intraoperative aberrometry.