title: Hydro-chop technique for soft lenses.
abstract: Chopping techniques were initially developed to expend the least amount of phacoemulsification power inside the eye to remove a lens and to improve efficiency. Soft nuclei are not generally conducive to traditional chopping techniques and have required alternate, energy-consuming techniques, such as sculpting, to be removed. We describe a modified chopping technique that can be used to mechanically cleave soft nuclei into distinct fragments before phaco power is required, reducing total power and energy expended in the eye.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. rbragamele@rogers.com
authors.forename: Rosa
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Braga-Mele
authors.forename: Baseer U
authors.initials: BU
authors.lastname: Khan
mesh_terms: D002386:Cataract / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D007908:Lens, Crystalline / Q000601:surgery*; D018918:Phacoemulsification / Q000379:methods*