Practice Patterns Of Canadian Ophthalmological Society Members In Cataract Surgery – Survey 2024
Published 2025 - 43rd Congress of the ESCRS
Reference: FP24.03 | Type: Free paper | DOI: 10.82333/t9r0-6a06
Authors: Lorenz Jacob Mangahas* 1 , Ian Ben Batcagan 1 , Richmond Siazon 1
1Ophthalmology,Ilocos Training and Regional Medical Center,San Fernando, La Union,Philippines
Purpose
This was the sixteenth annual survey on the practice patterns of the Canadian Ophthalmological (COS) members in cataract surgery.
Setting
Survey by email to Saskatchewan Health Authority.
Methods
In January 2024, the COS office sent an email with a link to the survey on Red Cap to its 241 members whose primary focus was cataract surgery. Two reminders were sent at 2 weeks interval. The response rate was 19.9%. All responses were collected anonymously.
Results
Most respondents (80.4%) corrected astigmatism at the time of cataract surgery. Most (90.2%) used a Toric IOL. 51% of the respondents aimed for monovision. The difference aimed for between the two eyes following cataract surgery ranged from 0.75D to 2 D. Presbyopia correcting lenses were used by 72.5% of the respondents. Intracameral antibiotics was used by 62.7% of the respondents in 2024 while only 42.9% did so in 2020. Immediately Sequential Bilateral Cataract Surgery (ISBCS) was performed by 58.8% of the respondents in 2024 while only 26% did so in 2020. Also of note, only 7.6% of the respondents performed ISBCS more than 50% of the time in 2020 while 23.3% did so in 2023.
Conclusions
There was a marked increase in respondents performing ISBCS and using intracameral antibiotics since the beginning of the COVID pandemic. The latter is probably because of the former. The COS leadership has been encouraging its members to perform ISBCS to reduce patient interaction during the pandemic.