We begin with this anecdote with which Dr. Muiños opened his presentation; without a doubt, a sign that new technologies and advances in medicine have not stopped ... nor will they stop. The renowned ophthalmologist told CORPUS:
“I remember in the year 85, when we operated a cataract we had them asleep with general anesthesia: we were doing an operation where we cut the cornea 180 degrees, we took all the cataract and we gave - if we were lucky - 8 points (the normal thing was 12 points).
Then we had the patient one week lying with our eyes closed and we put on those “bottle ass” glasses that they surely remember from their grandparents.
¿What's up today? Nowadays we do it with Local anesthesia; only with drops. We make a 1,7 mm incision. Over there, we enter and prepare the waterfall and put a lens that unfolds inside. Y the patient comes out more or less watching.
We have reached a degree of technology in ophthalmology, which is progressing. And this is achieving, that more and more people demand refractive surgery ”