Phaco Nightmares: Conquering Cataract Catastrophes [Hardcover]

Amar Agarwal MS FRCS FRCOphth (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1556427727 | ISBN-13: 978-1556427725 | Publication Date: June 1, 2006 | Edition: 1st

Even the most experienced cataract surgeon can encounter stressful situations in the operating room. Be prepared to manage unavoidable complications with Phaco Nightmares: Conquering Cataract Catastrophes.

Dr. Amar Agarwal, along with over 35 of today’s cataract surgery leaders, explains all there is to know about phacoemulsification in Phaco Nightmares to help the cataract surgeon stay in control when facing unique and complicated surgical challenges.

Some Phaco Nightmare cases include:
• Subluxated cataracts
• Managing dislocated lens fragments
• Suprahard cataracts
• Posterior polar cataracts
• Intraoperative floppy iris syndrome
• Posterior capsular rupture
• Intraocular lens opacifcation
• Infectious endophthalmitis
• Miotic pupils

Additionally, cutting edge information is included inside Phaco Nightmares on how to remove dropped endocapsular rings, nuclei or IOL’s. This distinctive book and video CD-ROM will make its mark with everyone involved in cataract surgery, from the resident to the experienced phaco surgeon.

More than 300 illustrations and photographs supplement the important information presented, providing visual as well as textual references. Additional material and visual learning is achieved with an accompanying video CD-ROM with over 45 minutes of live video that demonstrates many of the techniques discussed inside the pages of Phaco Nightmares.

Video CD-ROM Includes:
• Sub 1 mm Cataract Surgery
• Cliffhanger
• Posterior Polar Cataract
• Subluxated Cataract
• Small Pupil
• Incredible Disasters

Feel competent and comfortable in the operating room, no matter what challenge comes your way with Phaco Nightmares: Conquering Cataract Catastrophes by your side.

Editorial Reviews

Review

“Reading this book can lead to a more restful night’s sleep . . . The contributors to this book are world-renowned surgeons and the information that they provide will be useful to everyone who deals with cataracts, whether routine or complex. The contributors are experienced in their topic and provide state of the art information to manage nearly any situation. . . This video is very descriptive, but can make your heart skip a beat as you watch a lens float to the retina. Fortunately, each complication is managed efficiently and the viewer can pick up many important tips to use on their own complex cases. In summary, “Phaco Nightmares – Conquering Cataract Catastrophes” can be useful to phacomulsification surgeons of all experience levels.” – David T. Vroman, MD, American Journal of Ophthalmology "This is a well organized book on the various complications of phacoemulsification cataract surgery. Each chapter follows the same format and is concise, to the point and with a very practical approach which lends itself to easy reading and quick access to any topic that the reader might be interested in learning more about. . . The objectives are clearly met and the book is a tremendous resource for beginning and even experienced cataract surgeons. . . The uniqueness of this book is that it is written at a level that any surgeon, no matter at what stage of their career they might be, can obtain valuable information from the experienced authors. . . The book is richly illustrated and has excellent tables and key point summaries at the end of each chapter that help highlight the salient features. . . It will be a tremendous asset to training residents and a reference source for experienced practitioners who might need a few tips on an anticipated complicated case." – Stephen E. Orlin, MD, Doody's Review “In this book, Dr. Agarwal has assembled a world class group of surgeons to discuss a wide variety of difficult and challenging cases in phacoemulsification. Phaco Nightmares is a comprehensive text that will guide beginning and experienced Phaco surgeons alike. [Dr. Agarwal] has produced a text herein that will help give this generation of ophthalmic surgeons the experience and knowledge to meet the challenges of difficult and challenging surgery into the 21st century. I applaud his dedication to our profession.” – From the Foreword, Stephen S. Lane, MD, University of Minnesota, Stillwater, MN

About the Author

Dr. Amar Agarwal is the pioneer of phakonit, which is phako with a needle incision technology. This technique became popularized as bimanual phaco, microincision cataract surgery (MICS), or microphaco. He is the first to remove cataracts through a 0.7 mm tip with the technique called microphakonit. He has also discovered no anesthesia cataract surgery and FAVIT, a new technique to remove dropped nuclei. The air pump, which was a simple idea of using an aquarium fish pump to increase the fluid into the eye in bimanual phaco and co-axial phaco, has helped prevent surge. This built the basis of various techniques of forced infusion for small incision cataract surgery. He was also the first to use trypan blue for staining epiretinal membranes and publishing the details in his four-volume Textbook of Ophthalmology. His latest discovery is a new refractive error called aberropia. Dr. Agarwal has received many awards for his work in ophthalmology, most significantly the Barraquer Award and the Kelman Award. He has also written more than 33 books, which have been published in various languages—English, Spanish, and Polish. He also trains doctors from all over the world in his center on phaco, bimanual phaco, LASIK, and retina. The website for Dr. Agarwal’s Eye Hospital is http://www.dragarwal.com.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 464 pages
• Publisher: Slack Incorporated; 1st edition (June 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1556427727
• ISBN-13: 978-1556427725
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 6.6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,312,103 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Really Good Book, but unfortunately underserved by its material., March 31, 2011

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This review is from: Phaco Nightmares: Conquering Cataract Catastrophes (Hardcover)

Dr. A. Agarwal is one of India's figures in Phaco surgery, and worldwide as well.
Being highly dynamic and facing challenging cases constantly, this book is a product of vast experience in the field of phaco surgery.
The book deserves credit for its material, many of the topics are genuine, and some articles are not thoroughly discussed in many other textbooks of similar discipline.

Pros:
- Simple and easy language.
- Gives you an idea of what to do in "worst case" scenario.
- Focused not only on complications and its management, but on how to expect & avoid going into troubles right from the start. even before the patient enter OR.
- Many practical tips and tricks to make the surgery go as smooth as possible
- DVD supplied (with Videos)

Cons:
- Illustrations could have been drawn better.
- Printing & Paper quality not superior, and the high glossiness of paper causes much light reflections which is not pleasnat for reading.
- DVD does not work on windows Vista or Windows 7, it hardly works on Windows XP, and very complicated to run.
- Quality of video is not very high.

Conclusion:

This textbook is worth reading, but don't expect much of the videos. for its price i expected a better layout.
two stars lost because of the DVD problems and paper quality.

3.0 out of 5 stars Book's OK, Video's not so hot, July 23, 2009

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Elizabeth L. Groves "ElizabethG" (Indianapolis) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Phaco Nightmares: Conquering Cataract Catastrophes (Hardcover)

The DVD that comes with this takes forever to figure out how to view, it's outdated (and my husband is a techie). There are only 6 sections and they're so-so. The Book itself is pretty good, lots of good info. I was disappointed in the DVD.

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT BOOK, August 23, 2007

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Daniel Freitas - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Phaco Nightmares: Conquering Cataract Catastrophes (Hardcover)

This book should be read by everyone who perform Phaco surgeries. It's a great book, with great pictures and comes with a CD too. Don't wait to have your first complication to buy this book. BUY IT, READ IT, AND AVOID YOUR "NIGHTMARES"!!!!!! I would certainly recommend it!