Troubles dus à la chaleur : Questions médicales fréquentes
Nom anglais: Heat Stress Disorders
Descriptor UI:D018882
Tree Number:C26.522
Termes MeSH sélectionnés :
Cataract Extraction
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"text": "Faites des pauses fréquentes, buvez de l'eau régulièrement et portez des chapeaux larges."
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To compare the intraoperative challenges, complications, and operation time of illuminated chopper-assisted cataract surgery between cataract surgery only and phacovitrectomy in eyes with diabetic ret...
One university hospital, retrospective case series. Two hundred ninety-five eyes of 295 consecutive patients with diabetic retinopathy who underwent cataract surgery only or phacovitrectomy were retro...
Of the 295 eyes, 211 underwent cataract surgery only, and 84 underwent phacovitrectomy. Intraoperative challenges such as small pupil, miosis, or poor red reflex occurred more frequently (46 [21.8%] v...
The use of an illuminated chopper is a potential solution for diabetic cataract surgery, particularly in phacovitrectomy, by decreasing the use of supplemental devices, operation time, and posterior c...
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Femtosecond laser-assisted cataract surgery (FLACS)'s effect on reducing ultrasound energy, accumulated with cumulative dispersed energy (CDE) units, still remains controversial. This study aims to ev...
It was a retrospective case-control study. Total 629 eyes receiving either low-energy FLACS (performed with Ziemer LDV Z8 platform) or CPS were divided into two groups according to preoperative gradin...
We found overall CDE had no significant difference between two surgeries. However, low-energy FLACS led to a significantly lower CDE in patients with harder cataracts than CPS (18.47 ± 4.32 vs. 12.96 ...
The reduced energy consumption was observed by using low-energy FLACS irrespective of surgeons' experience or the approaches adopted in patients with harder cataracts. Therefore, we can have more conf...
Analysis of age at time of detection and surgery of dense unilateral cataract and investigation of best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) in a nationwide register-based cohort study, based on the routine...
Data were derived from the Paediatric Cataract Register (PECARE). All children (n = 54) diagnosed with dense congenital unilateral cataract between January 2007 and September 2014 who had surgery befo...
The majority, 35/54 (65%), were detected and operated on before age 6 weeks and 30/35 (86%) were referred from maternity wards. Visual acuity (VA) ≥ 0.5 (decimal, 0.3 logMAR) was found in 7/53 (13%) o...
A total of 90% of the children were detected with cataract within 100 days of birth and 80% were operated on within this period. This study showed better visual acuity in those treated for dense unila...
Climate change is one of the most important threats to human health nowadays. The healthcare industry produces a significant part of greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions. The aim of this study is to asses...
This observational case series study estimates and analyses the carbon footprint of a single cataract surgery using phacoemulsification in Ávila Hospital. ISO standard 14064 was applied....
The carbon footprint of a single cataract surgery in Ávila Hospital was 86.62kg CO...
Collaboration between pharmaceuticals and ophthalmologists is important to improve the environmental impact of cataract surgery. Future research is needed to introduce changes that do not compromise p...