Immediately Sequential Bilateral Cataract Surgery (ISBCS): Global History and Methodology is a comprehensive guide for the safe and efficient performance of ISBCS. It provides an overview of the history, recommended protocols, necessary precautions, exclusion criteria, benefits and risks associated with this procedure, organizational standards, and more. Written by the most prominent ISBCS surgeons in the world, chapters recount the arguments for and against bilateral surgery that have been made throughout the ages, up to the present, and deliver achieved and proposed resolutions to all problems discussed. Topics such as ethics and medico-legal issues surrounding ISBCS are also discussed, and a chapter on the global evolution of bilateral cataract surgery provides readers with a complete overview of the development of ISBCS practices in countries from all continents. - Provides a comprehensive history and current status of ISBCS globally - Provides step-by-step recommendations and precautions necessary to perform ISBCS safely, including detailed discussion of surgical infection prophylaxis with antibiotics delivered into the eye at surgery - Reviews and explains the patient benefits associated with ISBCS - Covers development of ISBCS practices worldwide

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Title of Book
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Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
Dedication
Contributors
About the Editors
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1 The history of cataract surgery and immediately sequential bilateral cataract surgery
Chapter 2 Why did we not always do ISBCS? Obstacles overcome
Chapter 3 The logic behind immediately sequential bilateral cataract surgery
Chapter 4 Immediately sequential bilateral cataract surgery: an idea whose time has come. Does the patient benefit?
Chapter 5 Immediately sequential bilateral cataract surgery in children
Chapter 6 The carbon footprint of cataract surgery and ISBCS
Chapter 7 Bilateral endophthalmitis risk and intracameral prophylactic antibiotics
Chapter 8 Ophthalmic viscosurgical and other devices and drugs for ISBCS
Chapter 9 Biometry for ISBCS
Chapter 10 IOL power selection in 2022—best practices for ISBCS and DSBCS
Chapter 11 ISBCS and presbyopia correcting intraocular lenses
Chapter 12 Identification of suitable patients for immediately sequential bilateral cataract surgery
Chapter 13 Ethical considerations in immediately sequential bilateral cataract surgery
Chapter 14 Medico-legal aspects of ISBCS
Chapter 15 ISBCS & money
Chapter 16 The uptake of immediately sequential bilateral cataract surgery in different parts of the world
Chapter 17 “Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.” Why was ISBCS resisted and how was this overcome?
Chapter 18 The International Society of Bilateral Cataract Surgeons (iSBCS)
Chapter 19 Anesthesia considerations for immediately sequential bilateral cataract surgery
Chapter 20 ISBCS: the patient's perspective
Chapter 21 Is ISBCS appropriate for MSICS?
Chapter 22 FLACS-ISBCS
Chapter 23 The COVID-19 pandemic and the uptake of ISBCS
Chapter 24 ISBCS: what we have learned, and how has it advanced ophthalmology?
Chapter 25 The future and limitations of immediately sequential bilateral cataract surgery (ISBCS)
Afterword
Final Afterword
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