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If you go to research LASIK eye surgery online, you may get conflicting messages. Some articles rave about it, but in some cases, others link it to severe pain or even suicide. 7 Action News' Carolyn Clifford sat down with one of the area's biggest providers of eye surgery to try and separate fact from fiction, so if you go under the laser, you know the risk.

LASIK is one of the most popular elective surgeries in the United States with 95% of patients walking away satisfied with their vision, according to one FDA study. But like with any surgery, there are risks.

In this video, Professor Dan Reinstein performs a bilateral LASIK procedure filmed in real-time to demonstrate the full 8 and-a-half minute procedure from multiple angles. The superior design and experience of the Carl Zeiss Meditec Visumax femtosecond Laser for flap creation is seen, where the patient is only in contact with the device for about 30 seconds with extremely low contract force such that the patient feels effectively nothing, there are no red splodges (subconjunctival haemorages) left behind. From the surgeons' standpoint there is no device that is easier to use or faster for LASIK flap creation. The Carl Zeiss Meditec MEL80 excimer laser portion of the procedure is seamlessly integrated and incorporates all the features that make clinical outcomes so reproducible including the unique cone-for-controlled-atmosphere (CCA) and high efficiency, high sensitivity calibration test which can be performed for each individual patient to compensate for minor changes in energy that occur with excimer laser devices during the course of a day.

For reference to the clinical outcomes for LASIK with the MEL80 in presbyopia using PRESBYOND Laser Blended Vision see:

Reading glasses presbyopia (ageing eyes) only:
LASIK for presbyopia correction in emmetropic patients using aspheric ablation profiles and a micro-monovision protocol with the Carl Zeiss Meditec MEL 80 and VisuMax.
J Refract Surg. 2012 Aug;28(8):531-41. Reinstein DZ, Carp GI, Archer TJ, Gobbe M.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22869232

Short sighted, astigmatism and presbyopia (ageing eyes)
LASIK for Myopic Astigmatism and Presbyopia Using Non-Linear Aspheric Micro-Monovision with the Carl Zeiss Meditec MEL 80 Platform.
J Refract Surg. 2011 Jan;27(1):23-37. Epub 2010 Mar 1.
Reinstein DZ, Archer TJ, Gobbe M.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20205360

Long-sighted, astigmatism and presbyopia (ageing eyes)
LASIK for hyperopic astigmatism and presbyopia using micro-monovision with the Carl Zeiss Meditec MEL80 platform.
J Refract Surg. 2009 Jan;25(1):37-58. Reinstein DZ, Couch DG, Archer TJ.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19244952

For more information about laser eye surgery and PRESBYOND Laser Blended Vision, please contact the London Vision Clinic on 020 7224 1005.

Ever considered getting laser eye surgery, but didn’t know how it worked? Allow us to help!

There are three different main types of laser eye surgery: LASIK, SMILE, and Surface Laser Treatments, and each can be explained pretty easily.

LASIK uses two lasers to open up a thin flap on the surface of the cornea, and then reshapes the cornea underneath. The flap is then placed back over the reshaped cornea, and heals independently with time.

SMILE uses one laser to reshape the cornea through a small, self-healing hole.

And Surface Eye Treatments remove the clear skin over the eye, to then reshape the cornea underneath with - you guessed it - a laser!

This covers some of the benefits, side effects and potential complications of LASIK Eye Surgery! Learn about the pros and cons of laser eye surgery and some pro tools to help you along the way.

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LASIK Affordability Calculator
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Patient Guide to Refractive Surgery
https://www.aao.org/Assets/e89....0eb55-9bfa-465a-8422

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In this video you will find a laser eye surgery review. We cover the laser eye surgery procedure and how lasik eye surgery works. A large emphasis is on the benefits of laser eye surgery as well as potential side effects and complications. We even touch on the topic of lasik eye surgery gone wrong.

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Contact us to find out more http://www.londonvisionclinic.com/contact-us/ Mr Carp explains the risks involved in losing sight as being extremely rare. Only 1 in 5 million may lose sight in one eye.

What to expect and how to prepare for your knee replacement surgery

Watch Dr. Robert Thomas, of Panorama Orthopedics & Spine Center, perform a Mako Knee replacement. He narrates each step of the process.

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UW Health orthopedic surgeon Richard Illgen has pioneered robotic-assisted knee replacement and serves as a regional and national expert in these techniques. Learn more: http://www.uwhealth.org/49421

A recap of Mater Hospital patient Helen's story as she progressed from experiencing chronic knee pain due to osteoarthritis, through to knee replacement treatment and ultimately a new lease on life.

Dedicated to surgical excellence and patient-centred care, the Mater Hospital North Sydney is regarded as a leading orthopaedic hospital and the only Australian hospital to be accepted into the International Society of Orthopaedic Centres.

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The type of operation performed for removal of pancreatic cancer is based on the location of the tumor. For tumors of the head and neck of the pancreas a Whipple procedure, (also called a pancreaticoduodenectomy) is performed. This is a complex operation perfected at Johns Hopkins. This video will explain the surgery and what patients can expect.

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Surgical site infections (SSIs) remain a prevalent threat to patient safety. Proper surgical hand scrub or rub techniques are essential to decreasing the incidence of SSIs. This video provides instructions on the anatomical surgical hand scrub procedure using the brushstroke method. Learn more from the Department of Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control (HEIC) at The Johns Hopkins Hospital: http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/heic

Lattrell Wells was a perfect candidate for the MACI procedure. Dr. Michael O'Malley is a sports medicine surgeon at Carilion Clinic, "It’s a two stage procedure. So what we do is we actually harvest a small portion of the patient's cartilage and bone cells and we send it to a lab where the lab then that grows additional cartilage cells. It comes back to us in a little sheet and six weeks after that initial surgery, we re-implant the cartilage in a second surgery where we implant that sheet depending on the size of lesion right where his defect. This the only option where there’s virtually no risk of any kind of graft rejection or anything of that nature.

Lumpectomy means that a focal area of cancer is going to be removed. A lot of patients with a lumpectomy don’t need any specific breast reconstruction, explains Dr. Miguel Angel Medina, Director of Microsurgery with Miami Cancer Institute.
Al the end of surgical treatment, all those patients go on to need radiation therapy. For patients who have large breasts, physicians have to take a larger lumpectomy than normal.