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Ophthalmology Quicksand Chronicles is LIVE at the ASCRS Annual Meeting! The dynamic duo hosts will interview surgeons about their “quicksand” moments in a live episode of the podcast, produced from the ASCRS Tap Room located in the Exhibit Hall.
If you’re attending the meeting and want the chance to share some of your most vulnerable surgical moments when your case didn’t go as planned—and the lessons you learned from it—with these dynamic hosts, submit a video of your “quicksand” moment by July 12 for consideration here. Videos should be no more than 5 minutes and your submission should include a few sentences that describe what happened in your case, how you handled it, how it made you feel, and what you learned from the case/how it helped you evolve as a surgeon.
Watch—or listen—to this episode of Quicksand Chronicles where hosts are joined by Dr. Brandon Ayres. In addition to being a world-class surgeon, Dr. Ayres’ dedication to teaching has made a tremendous impact in the world of ophthalmology. Dr. Ayres dives into a quicksand moment of a patient who has a dislocated multifocal IOL from a golf ball. Based on the patient’s request, Dr. Ayres kept it his priority to keep the patients’ multifocal IOL. After what he thought was a “successful” procedure of recentering the original multifocal IOL, Dr. Ayres thought he was king of the world. That all came crashing down when he received a text from the patient 3 days later where his IOL looked completely sideways. Tune in to see what Dr. Ayres does to fix this complex IOL issue!
Thank you to our episode sponsor, Tarsus.
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Watch—or listen—to this episode of Ophthalmology Quicksand Chronicles featuring Rosa Braga-Mele, MD. Dr. Braga-Mele discusses her passionate commitment to motherhood, teaching the next generation of surgeons, clinical care of her patients, and athletics. Aside from being a world-renown surgeon, Dr. Braga-Mele has been an accomplished & nationally known bodybuilder. Bodybuilding has proven to improve her spiritual zen, physical endurance, and mental strength for Dr. Braga-Mele, and this has directly improved her skills as a surgeon in the OR. Dr. Braga-Mele will showcase a quicksand moment where a sudden burst of positive pressure at the wrong time led to one of the most common complications of operating on a dense white cataract.
Finally, make sure to tune in and watch this episode to hear from one of Quicksand Chronicles podcast super fans!
Thank you to our episode sponsor, Alcon.
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Watch—or listen—to this episode of Ophthalmology Quicksand Chronicles as the hosts and Dr. Agarwal discuss his quicksand moments, the cases that took him a few days to recover from. He reflects on difficult surgical cases: one that went wrong from the start, where MAC was chosen in lieu of general anesthesia for a cognitively challenged young patient and another involving a colobomatous eye, complicated by a mature lens and hours of missing zonules. Join us as Dr. Agarwal shares his profound surgical, clinical, and personal pearls gained through the evolution of his quicksand moments.
Thank you to our episode sponsor, Orasis Pharmaceuticals.
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Listen and join us for this episode of Ophthalmology Quicksand Chronicles featuring John Berdahl, MD. Dr. Berdahl will showcase a quicksand moment where a patient with a history of trauma and a sutured Ophtec Artificial Iris/IOL undergoes an istent and ECP for uncontrolled IOP. After the ECP is completed, the chamber begins to shallow, the red reflex is lost, and the pressure is on! This quicksand moment emphasizes the importance of pivoting, getting the complication under control, and how to process the most devastating complication in Ophthalmology…an expulsive suprachoroidal hemorrhage. Dr. Berdahl eloquently teaches us how to learn from these major teaching moments and use these experiences to become an even better surgeon.
Thank you to our episode sponsor, Tarsus.
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Listen and join us for this episode of Ophthalmology Quicksand Chronicles featuring Marjan Farid, MD. Dr. Farid will dive deep into a challenging cataract surgery, where the degree of capsular support was unknown until she was in the eye. Every step presents a new, complex challenge, starting with the very loose and dense lens. Watch and listen as Dr. Farid teaches us a novel way to perform a Yamane technique for scleral IOL fixation. The final Quicksand teaching moment occurs when she manages the decentered and tilted IOL. You won't want to miss this true test of skill and endurance.
Thank you to our episode sponsor, CorneaGen.
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Listen and join us for this episode of Ophthalmology Quicksand Chronicles featuring Dr. Cathleen McCabe. In this spotlight innovation episode, Dr. McCabe will share her belt loop innovation using a Prolene 5-0/6-0 suture to scleral fixate a dislocated intraocular lens. While creatively devising the belt loop, double-flange technique, Dr. McCabe delves into the quicksand moments involved while innovating this new technique.
Thank you to our episode sponsor, SBH.
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Listen and join us for this episode of Ophthalmology Quicksand Chronicles featuring Dr. Eric Donnenfeld. In addition to a nearly 30-year successful career as a Refractive and Cataract surgeon, Dr. Donnenfeld gets personal as he describes the multiple hats that he wears, as a husband, parent, educator, mentor, researcher, and innovating partner to industry. In this episode, hear about 2 quicksand moments that Dr. Donnenfeld experiences in the OR, from managing unexpected vitreous loss to surgical correction of multiple intraocular lens surprises with IOL exchange surgery.
Thank you to our episode sponsors, OSRX and BVI.
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Listen and join us for this episode of Ophthalmology Quicksand Chronicles with our guest, Dr. Cathleen McCabe. Hear about Dr. McCabe’s quicksand moment where an unexpected capsule tear extends from the anterior capsule straight across the posterior capsule. In this quicksand moment, Dr. McCabe emphasizes how to prevent such capsule tears, and pearls on how to prevent vitreous prolapse.
Thank you to our episode sponsor, BVI.
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Listen and join us for the first-ever episode of Ophthalmology Quicksand Chronicles Podcast with hosts Drs. Nicole Fram and Elizabeth Yeu. In this episode, hear about the origin of the quicksand chronicles podcast where the hosts will dive deep into the psychology of how to prepare for challenging cases, evolve, and improve as a result. In this episode, Dr. Ike Ahmed from Prism Eye Institution will share one of his most challenging quicksand moments with the surgical management of a nanophthalmic eye, and learn how this complex case helped Dr. Ahmed pivot and move forward as an even greater surgeon.
Thank you to our episode sponsor, MST.
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