Dr.Kunwar Vikram Singh Dhaliwal, Dr.Ranjit Singh Dhaliwal
In modern era, Manual SICS is not just a Routine camp surgery; it’s an elite Cataract Refractive surgery. This video aims to convey that every young budding surgeon should master this technique of cataract surgery and give each and every patient the perfect refractive outcome, even while still in training. In this video, steps of the surgery and factors affecting the refractive outcome during the surgery will be discussed. Pre-operative workup, importance of incision size and placement, capsulorhexis, effective lens position, and wound closure, will be stressed upon. The video will show bilateral Supero-temporal Manual SICS of a patient with deep set eyes, for whom monovision was planned. It will include 3 weeks post op. results of the surgeries performed and subjective correction of the patient for distance and near. Any closed chamber cataract surgery can be a refractive surgery. Practicing the surgical technique makes our SIA more predictable, thus making manual SICS – An elite cataract Refractive Surgery.