Cataract Surgery

The treatment is a good replacement for other procedures such as laser resurfacing to treat fragile areas of the body such as around the eyes, the backs of the hands and the feet.

Dr. Mark Everett is the clinic coordinator and optometric physician of the Pacific Cataract and Laser Institute (PCLI) office in Spokane, Washington. A special surgical team, which includes seven surgeons, comes to the Spokane clinic to perform laser vision correction surgeries known as LASIK and other eye surgeries weekly. There are a total of 11 PCLI clinics throughout the northwestern United States that the surgical team cover. Competition from Lexington Laser Vision (LLV) in Vancouver, Canada, is charging lower rates and attracting potential customers away from PCLI. A local clinic, Eye Consultants, is heavily advertising in the local newspaper a price per eye that is significantly lower than PCLI. Dr. Everett clinic has the capacity to do more laser vision correction surgeries, and he wants to expand this service to keep current patients and attract new ones. An advertising campaign has already begun, but a clear strategic focus is needed to respond to this challenge.

There is a concern that the coordinator of the clinic has noted about the hospital Pacific Cataract and Laser Institute. The hospital is well known for the services that they offer to their patients, and they face a lot of competition from the hospitals that offer the same service. One of the Doctor’s, Dr. Everett, is concerned about the kind of pricing that their major competitor in the Laser surgery is offering. The Canada based hospital is advertising the surgery for the cost of $900 while the estimated cost of the surgery for the surgery ranges from $1750 to around $ 2000 (Lawrence & Morris, 2002). It comes as a surprise, as the advert is considered to be inappropriate by the PCLI doctors. The variable costs of

The facility is collaborating closely with the patient?s optometrists who serve as the primary care doctors. If a surgery is necessitated, the doctor of optometry (OD) will then direct the patients to the expertise of the eye surgeons of PCLI to address specialized treatments. In Spokane alone, they have built a strong network of about 150 family optometrists. For a period of time, PCLI has managed their operations with eleven satellite clinics, seven surgeons, several surgical assistants, patient counselors and a resident physician at every clinic (Swayne, et al., 2013). However, due to continued growth in the industry with significant market potential, stiffer competition is slowly escalating. In fact, intense rivalry from other laser eye surgery centers in Canada as well as other larger laser eye care centers in the nation who are charging less for Lasik eye surgery are becoming a huge challenge for PCLI. The facility is very much aware that there is an enormous possibility that they will lose a huge number of patients to the aforementioned competitors. With that, there is an intense pressure to reduce overhead costs to survive in a competitive landscape. It is imperative for the facility to reevaluate its market efforts and its services operations process and focus on new management strategy, capacity utilization, cost control and marketing

The study has been conducted for the past twenty years. It found that among the 74,044 women who are 65 and older that all of them who had cataracts, 60 percent lower risk of death among the 41,735 women who did get them removed. Cataracts happen over time from age and most people end up having to get the surgery. The study show that because of the surgery it reduced people's risk of death from multiple health issues. Cataract surgery is probably the most successful surgery around because it is done so

because this data is not recorded. The timeline to complete the review of the cataract pre-op surgery process is November 30, 2015.

Results: The study included 40 eyes of 21 patients. All patients completed at least 6 months

Cataract surgery has generally been performed in an ambulatory surgical center or a hospital outpatient facility. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) called for comments on its proposed Regulation 2016 Medicare Fee Schedule. With the high surgical intensity of cataract surgery and the importance of patient safety due to the existing co-morbidities of the elderly population; the population who generally undergoes this type of surgical procedure, the nursing professional should advocate for the safety and positive outcomes that continue to exist in hospital outpatient facilities and ambulatory surgical centers. As nurses we must ensure that all nursing needs of all patients are met. Involving the stakeholders or those that are directly impacted by this regulation may help CMS to make the correct decision. CMS must assess the standard and best practices of the office setting against the practices of either the hospital outpatient setting or the ambulatory surgical setting.

The surgery is performed in a hospital. Before the surgery, you will be given a general anesthesia to ensure that you will not feel any pain. The surgery will take between 3 to 4 hours to complete. And you will need to remain in the hospital for several days.

The surgery I had was a pretty major surgery some could say, four though six hours and it's compared as open heart surgery. It wasn't the surgical pain though that caused me to stay there longer then i was supposed to no, it was some kind of nerve pain that even the doctors and nurses had know idea what to do. My case was so uncommon they sent me into ICU after fives days of being in pain two hours three times a day. Not knowing what to do the nurses would just shoot me up with a bunch of drugs just to calm down the pain and all I could do was watch as this was all happening while gasping for air.

Main Point One: In 2017, Wachler stated that LASIK eye surgery also known, as laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis is a procedure performed to correct nearsightedness, farsightedness and/or astigmatism.

Eye color comes from the amount of melanin, a pigment found in the front part of the iris of the eye (Genetics, 2017). Lack of melanin results in blue eyes, some melanin gives green eyes, and a lot of melanin gives brown eyes. Cataracts are clouding of the lens that prevents light from entering. The cause of cataracts is unknown but there are possible reasons for it such as diabetes, smoking, and a lot of exposure to sunlight. Signs include lack of color intensity, night vision problems, fuzzy, blurry, or filmy vision. The function of the retina is to receive light the lens had focused on, switch the light into neural signals, and then send those signals to the brain for visual recognition. Most of the time eye floaters are from age related

Treatment of open-angle glaucoma usually begins with prescription eyedrops. These eyedrops lower pressure inside the eyeball, either by causing the eye to produce less fluid or by helping fluid to drain more. As an alternative to medication or when medication does not control glaucoma, laser surgery can be done. This surgery, also called laser trabeculoplasty, uses a laser to make the openings in the eye's drainage network larger. If medication and laser surgery are unsuccessful, conventional eye surgery may be necessary to make a new opening for fluid to leave the eye.

Cat eye syndrome is a syndrome where you have extra chromosome. Some other names for this syndrome like;Schmid-Fraccaro Syndrome,and CES.THe parental test that you can takes for this disorder is and ultrasound,amniocentesis,chorionic villus sampling.Research says that there is no treatment found.Research says that there is no way to prevent this disorder.SOmeone with disorder doesn’t need medical assistance.Anyone with cat eyes can have children,but if the parents have it then their kid can too. Last is that currently researchers are aiming to examine emotional adjustments,memory, and brain structure.

The perception of depth is due to having two separate eyes creating two separate images, while the ability to adapt to light change is attributed to the iris and the dilator muscles. However these two aspects of the eye are not involved in laser eye surgery and will not be discussed in reference. The focusing of objects and images is very much part of laser eye surgery. In order for a clear visual image to be formed the image must come to a point on the retina. Light rays do not