Picture this: You’ve just spent $400,000 on a femtosecond laser for cataract surgery, and then one morning you walk into the operating room to find it broken and shoved against the wall. Though it sounds like a fictional worst-case scenario, it actually happened to Denver ophthalmologist Michael Taravella. “We thought, OK, we have to find a separate room for this laser,” recalls Dr. Taravella, who had placed the laser in an OR he shared with surgeons and staff from other specialties who had made it a habit of bumping it out of their way. He says that this dark episode illustrates just one potential issue that can crop up when a surgeon invests in this new technology and then has to address the logistics of making it work in his surgery center. In this article, surgeons and surgery-center experts share their tips on how you can incorporate the femtosecond without slowing down.
Posted on: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 13:00:31 +0000
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