Supported by an unrestricted academic independent medical education grant from Alcon.

3D Episode 54

June, 2023

Phacoemulsification in Eyes with Corneal Endothelial Dystrophy

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Surgery Details

Surgery Desciption

A patient with an endothelial cell count of 1000 cells/mm² undergoes phacoemulsification with IOL insertion.

Learning Objective

After completion of this educational activity, participants should be able to perform techniques that serve to protect the endothelium from damage during phacoemulsification

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Richard J Mackool, MD Financial Disclosure: Richard J. Mackool, MD and RJ Mackool, MD are consultants with Alcon.

Satisfactory completion: Learners must pass a post-test and complete an evaluation form to receive a certificate of completion. Your chosen sessions must be attended in their entirety. Partial credit of individual sessions is not available. If you are seeking continuing education credit for a specialty not listed below, it is your responsibility to contact your licensing/certification board to determine course eligibility for your licensing/certification requirement.

Accreditation Statement – In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Amedco LLC and Review Education Group. Amedco LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Physicians (ACCME) Credit Designation – Amedco LLC designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of .25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Target Audience: Ophthalmologists with an interest in cataract surgery.

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Richard Mackool MD, a world renowned anterior segment ophthalmic microsurgeon, has assembled a web-based 3D video collection of both routine and challenging cases, demonstrating both familiar and potentially unfamiliar surgical techniques using a variety of instrumentation and surgical console parameters. This educational activity presents a series of these 3D videos, carefully selected to address the specific learning objectives of this effort, with the goal of providing 3D surgical training videos online to surgeons motivated to improve or expand their surgical knowledge.