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Biogadgetry UnpackedAuthor: Tiffany Toh
Join me in learning about the coolest biogadgetry in the world today! Whether you just think biomedical engineering is cool (brain implants, anyone?) or are already far too familiar with medical devices, I promise a wild ride! We'll chat with some friends, a couple industry experts, and most importantly, the people who use biogadgets to live their lives every day. Email me: biogadgetry@tiffanytoh.com Leave a voice message: https://anchor.fm/biogadgetry/message Language: en Genres: Health & Fitness, Medicine Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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#3 - Intraocular Lenses/Cataract Surgery
Tuesday, 16 February, 2021
An eye for an eye. ————— My friend Austin joins to chat about the most commonly implanted medical device: artificial eye lenses, or intraocular lenses (IOLs), which replace the natural eye lens, necessary to treat cataracts in millions of elderly Americans. Look out for a nasty, ineffective yet extremely well-documented procedure for ancient eye surgery, an alarming disparity in blindness demographics between the developing and developed world, and constant reminders of how awesome our human eyes are. ————— Works Consulted: Overview of Procedures surgeryencyclopedia.com/Ce-Fi/Extracapsular-Cataract-Extraction.html Traditional Couching (Schemann 2009) doi.org/10.1076/opep.7.4.271.4174 Femtosecond Laser Outcomes (Alio 2014) doi.org/10.3928/1081597X-20140516-01 (access at tinyurl.com/alio-femtosecond) Femtosecond Meta-Analysis (Popovic 2016) doi.org/10.1016/j.ophtha.2016.07.005 Demographics in Developing Countries (Book: Wilcon, 2005) books.google.com/books?id=gLJZDD2igCMC&pg=PA20#v=onepage&q&f=false (Cited on en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cataract#cite_note-12) Monofocal vs Accommodating IOLs (Ong 2014) doi.org/10.1002/14651858.cd009667.pub2 Multifocal vs Accommodating IOLs (Hovanesian 2018) dx.doi.org/10.2147%2FOPTH.S182943 Toric IOLs (Kaur 2017) dx.doi.org/10.4103%2Fijo.IJO_810_17
