A committee of iSBCS has been working on “Suggestions for safe ISBCS” for over 1 year. The final version was reviewed and voted on for acceptance by the membership at our 2nd annual meeting in Barcelona, Spain on Sept. 14, 2009, and it has now (Nov. 5, 2009) been written up and formatted.2009-11-04-final-posted-isbcs-sbcs-suggestions2
I have been writing and reading alot about bilateral cataract surgery. The terminology and abbreviations are confusing. I would like to suggest that we universally adopt an amalgam of separate proposals:
ISBCS = Immediately sequential bilateral cataract surgery
DSBCS = Delayed sequential bilateral cataract surgeries
I believe that the terminology of “iImmediately sequential” and “delayed sequential” was first [...]
At ESCRS 2008 in Belrin, Tiina Leivo, of Finland presented a fascinating study demonstrating that the non-medical costs to society to prevent a single case of simultaneous bilateral endophthalmitis after SBCS is about 1 Billion USD. Furthermore, mathematically, the same theoretical patient would still suffer bilateral endophthalmitis, the only difference being that it would not be simultaneous. Dr. Leivo estimated the risk at about 1 patient per million.
A presentation on SBCS and iSBCS will be given at the CarlZeiss Meditech booth on Monday April 6, 2009, 11:00 - 11:30 AM, by Steve Arshinoff MD FRCSC, President iSBCS. All are welcome.