PREVENTION AND HANDLING OF COMPLICATIONS ARISING DURING AND AFTER CATARACT EXTRACTION: SOME PRACTICAL POINTS

The removal of senile cataract may be attended by unexpected complications as well as by complications which have been foreseen in the individual case. The surgeon will do well to anticipate if possible all the exigencies which may arise for each patient so that he may be prepared to apply the proper treatment. For any one to state that he has encountered no complications and expects none during or after this operation is pure folly. The wise operator will recognize the fact that difficulties do arise and that they come to the best surgeon. He will do all he can by study and by analysis of the experience of others and of his own experience to broaden his knowledge and to increase his armamentarium in the prevention and handling of complications as they arise. I shall review in detail in a practical way the methods which I have been in