%0 Journal Article
%T First postoperative day review after uneventful phacoemulsification cataract surgery: Is it necessary?
%A Irini P Chatziralli
%A Theodoros N Sergentanis
%A Evgenia Kanonidou
%A Leonidas Papazisis
%J BMC Research Notes
%D 2012
%I BioMed Central
%R 10.1186/1756-0500-5-333
%X 291 patients who underwent uneventful phacoemulsification were randomized into two groups (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01247155): i) Next day review (NDR group, n£¿=£¿146) and ii) No next day review (NNDR group, n£¿=£¿145). The rate of complications, percentage of patients seeking non-scheduled medical consultation up to postoperative day 14, presence of any inflammation-related sign and best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) on postoperative day 28 were analyzed.In the NDR group, 5.5% of patients developed a postoperative complication, whereas the respective rate was 6.2% in the NNDR group. The difference was not statistically significant (p£¿=£¿0.791). The most frequent complications were: elevated intraocular pressure, allergy to postoperative treatment, corneal abrasion, punctuate epitheliopathy, iris prolapse and postoperative hyphema, whose rates did not differ between the two groups. The rate of patients seeking non-scheduled medical consultation up to postoperative day 14, presence of any inflammation-related sign, as well as BCVA on day 28 did not exhibit any significant differences between the study groups.First postoperative day review could be omitted in cases of uneventful cataract surgery.Cataract surgery is one of the most common surgical procedures worldwide [1,2]. Phacoemulsification and recent advances in cataract surgery techniques lead to improved postoperative outcomes, as well as to reduced intra- and postoperative complications [2,3]. Therefore, there is a tendency in discharging patients on the same day of surgery, without first day postoperative review [3-6], which is considered to be an increasing issue due to economic reasons. Nevertheless, routine review on the first day postoperatively has several advantages, such as the early detection of complications, reassurance for the patient and training of staff [3]. As a result, there have been studies which stated that first day postoperative review after uneventful phacoemulcification cataract su
%K Cataract
%K Review
%K Postoperative
%K First day
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