Femtosecond Laser Assisted Cataract Surgery in The NHS

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Status

Completed

Conditions

Cataract

Surgery

Treatments

Procedure: Conventional cataract surgery (phacoemulsification)

Procedure: Femtosecond laser assisted cataract surgery

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT02825693

ILH297-P002

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to examine the health economic impact of adopting femtosecond laser technology to assist high volume cataract surgery (FLACS) within a state-funded healthcare system, the National Health Service (NHS).

Enrollment

400 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Patients must have reduced visual acuity or visual symptoms attributed to the presence of cataract in one or both eyes by the examining ophthalmologist or else must require cataract surgery on clinical grounds other than visual symptoms.
Patients must be willing to attend for follow-up at 1 month after cataract surgery.
Patients must be sufficiently fluent in English for informed consent and self-completion of the patient reported outcome questionnaires.

Exclusion criteria

Children below the age of 18
Already enrolled in another study

The principle exclusion criteria relate to clinical contraindications for FLACS, such as:

Significant corneal opacities
Small pupils following pharmacological dilatation
Patients unable to lie sufficiently flat so as to be positioned underneath the laser machine.