Surgeon, anesthesiologist satisfaction found to be unreliable indicators of patient satisfaction during ocular surgery

Medical Xpress / Boston Medical Center / Clinical Ophthalmology ^ | Apr. 22, 2022 | Natalie Sadlak et al

[ConservativeMind]

I chuckled while reading this one. “Good” is a relative term.

Talk with your doctors before surgery to help all parties level set expectations.

[ConservativeMind]

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[PGR88]

[George from New England]

I’ve had cataract surgery twice.

I say a big.

So ! No story here, just diarrhea from the MSM.

[Georgia Girl 2]

I went with complete lack of awareness on my cataract surgery. 😂

[HighSierra5]

The doctors are OK. They don’t feel pain.

[EEGator]

No one is touching my eyeballs if I’m conscious.
Swinging would happen if I was awake.

[PeterPrinciple]

The correlation of patient to surgeon satisfaction was 0.333 on a scale of 0 to 1, indicating a moderately weak correlation.

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surveys never tell you much. Maybe suggest a different measurement?

[Sans-Culotte]

I have had 6 or 7 eye surgeries for Thyroid Eye Disease. Most of them were done with an anesthesia called MAC (Monitored Anesthesia Care). If they needed me to do something, like look at an "X" on the ceiling to see if my double vision was getting better while they adjusted eye muscles, the MAC anesthesia was the best option. I was in a twilight state and could hear the doctors and hear music (they let me choose the type of music), but I was still sort of asleep. I have had general anesthesia 4 times and it is much more difficult to wake up from general than a MAC.

I remember once I was being prepped for a MAC eye surgery and I could hear a lady a couple of stalls over arguing with the anesthesiologist that she only wanted General Anesthesia. She did not want to be awake at all. She was having a minor Glaucoma surgery to relieve intraocular pressure and a MAC would have been perfect. They wheeled me out before I could find out what they decided.

[Pollard]

Now do colonoscopies.

[billorites]

I'm fine.
No, really.

[EEGator]

A Clockwork Orange.
I don’t like even seeing eyeball “things” in movies.

[Gay State Conservative]

I could very well be luckier than most but the six times I’ve been under anesthesia (hip replacements,hand surgery and colonoscopies) I’ve had one problem that wasn’t really a problem.At the end of one of the colonoscopies I partially woke up before they were done. No pain at all...and I got to look at my colon on the TV screen that was next to the table.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Eyes of Texas Laser Center in Austin is EXCELLENT. Doctor is strict, no-nonsense, but very good at what he does.

[goodnesswins]

The WORST pain I’ve ever experienced was during my cataract surgery...and I was told I would feel nothing...after the first shot in the eye, I loudly but very controllably proclaimed for all patients nearby to hear, “that was the worst pain ever” (I wanted to scream, actually). The doc looked at the anesthesiologist and said “this next one won’t hurt” and it did not. But, sheesh...I was very unhappy. I had an IV of something and obviously the level was incorrect.

[Mouton]

I had two eye muscle corrections the last 60 years ago. The first was under ether. It was awful during recovery. So, when asked if doing the next one by local anesthetic was OK, I said absolutely. After the injection I was awaiting to see nothing. No one told me the local did not deaden the optic nerve. I was 13 and still recall how disconcerting it was to see my cheeks and mouth from the top down perspective. I also was not too keen on seeing the dr headed toward my eyes with a scaple. Live and learn.

[FamiliarFace]

You can keep your glasses. I’ve chucked my for good. I’m living happily ever after for almost two years now, with perfect close vision, perfect mid-range vision, and near perfect distance vision. I had cataract surgery in both eyes, and multi-focal lenses implanted. I was hoping my surgeon could give me binocular eyes as well, but that didn’t happen. Life is good.

For the record, I think you’d want to be awake for when the doctor needs you to look in a certain direction to make sure he has things in the correct location. I didn’t have any pain at all during the surgeries. I did have a little bit of anxiety, but listening to him talk or focusing on the music was very helpful.

[EEGator]

I have 20/20 vision.

[FamiliarFace]

Ahhh, you’re one of the lucky ones! Hope it keeps up for you. I really do. Natural 20/20 vision is such a blessing. I started wearing glasses when I was 10, and hated them. Two years ago I asked the doctor if there was any way for me to get rid of them permanently. I am so happy now.

[DIRTYSECRET]

It was in the news 40+ years ago. The MD put a 15 year old patient(female) to sleep after an LVN shaved her privates. An RN walked by and saw the good doctor eating her out.