SurgSpace / Specialties / Ophthalmic Surgery
Ophthalmic Surgery
Surgery of the eye: cataract, retina, glaucoma and the open globe. The two operations every student should know are here; Mediverse also has a whole platform for the eye, so this specialty hands you across rather than duplicating it.
Backdrop: A surgeon performing cataract surgery · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
The operations
Procedures
What the specialty does in theatre, with the imagery that goes with it.
What the specialty does in theatre: each operation with its image, its indication, and the doors into OR prep and the step-by-step walkthrough.
Featured operation
Phacoemulsification with IOL
The most performed operation on earth: the clouded lens is emulsified through a two-millimetre tunnel and a folded acrylic lens unrolls into its place.
Indication: Visually significant cataract; the threshold is the patient's life, not a Snellen line.
Common and emergency operations
The rest of the list
Hub shaped by the Surgical Specialties Lead with the Ophthalmic surgery reviewer (open seat). Images and videos carry their source; educational use for supervised learning, not clinical guidance.