Main description:

Immediately Sequential Bilateral Cataract Surgery (ISBCS): Global History and Methodology is a comprehensive guide for the safe and efficient performance of ISBCS. It provides an overview of the history, recommended protocols, necessary precautions, exclusion criteria, benefits and risks associated with this procedure, organizational standards, and more.
Written by the most prominent ISBCS surgeons in the world, chapters recount the arguments for and against bilateral surgery that have been made throughout the ages, up to the present, and deliver achieved and proposed resolutions to all problems discussed. Topics such as ethics and medico-legal issues surrounding ISBCS are also discussed, and a chapter on the global evolution of bilateral cataract surgery provides readers with a complete overview of the development of ISBCS practices in countries from all continents.

Contents:

1. The History of Cataract Surgery from ancient times to ISBCS 2. Why did we not always do ISBCS? (What had to be overcome?) 3. The logic behind bilateral cataract surgery 4. The argument for and against ISBCS 5. ISBCS in children 6. The carbon footprints of ISBCS and DSBCS 7. The risk of bilateral endophthalmitis and IC antibiotics 8. Ophthalmic Viscosurgical Devices for ISBCS 9. Biometry for ISBCS 10. IOL Power Selection in 2022 - Best Practices for ISBCS and DSBCS 11. ISBCS and presbyopia correcting IOLs 12. Inclusions and Exclusions for ISBCS 13. Ethics surrounding ISBCS 14. Medico-legal Aspects of ISBCS 15. ISBCS and money 16. The Evolution of Bilateral Cataract Surgery - Global perspective 17. "Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come." Why was ISBCS resisted and how was this overcome? 18. The International Society of Bilateral Cataract Surgeons 19. Anesthesia for ISBCS 20. ISBCS - the patient's perspective 21. Is ISBCS appropriate for MSICS? 22. FLACS and ISBCS 23. The COVID-19 pandemic and the uptake of ISBCS 24. ISBCS: What we have learned, and how has it advanced ophthalmology? 25. The future and limitations of ISBCS