PreOp® Patient Education Cataract - Small Incision Surgery...

PreOp® Patient Education Cataract - Small Incision Surgery PreOp® Patient Engagement StoreMD™ for Physician videos: http://store.preop.com Patient Education Company PreOp® https://PreOp.com & StoreMD™ https://store.preop.com Patient Education Company On the day of your operation, you will be asked to put on a surgical gown. You may receive a sedative by mouth and an intravenous line may be put in. And you’ll given eye drops to dilate, or open, the pupil. You will then be transferred to the operating table. To begin, the surgeon will use a special instrument to gently hold the eyelids apart. Then the surgeon will apply an antiseptic solution to the skin around the eye before injecting a local anesthetic. While the anesthetic is taking effect, the surgeon will position a microscope in front of the eye. By now, the pupil will be fully open, or dilated. When the operative field is numb, the surgeon will use the microscope to help make a very small incision just 3 millimete…

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