ROUTINE CATARACT SURGERY AND PACEMAKERS
- by fox30
- 2018-06-08 18:13:25
- Surgery & Recovery
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Usually cataract surgery is done with local anesthesia and maybe a bit of consious sedation. Is it usually the case that a PM tech is necessary to be in the OR? Does the eye doc request some sort of clearance from the pactient's EP cardiologist? Anyone have experience with cataract surgery?
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Nope
by IAN MC - 2018-06-08 18:48:52
I had one eye done 2 weeks ago and discussed my PM with the opthalmic surgeon . He was adamant that this was not an issue !
My old lens was destroyed with ultra-sound which is fine with PMs, as is the local anaesthetic gel and sedative drug.
I guess if I had an I.C.D. I would rather not have a Jesus jolt just as the surgeon was making the incision into my eye-ball ; but having a PM.... absolutely no problem !
I can probably see half as well as Patch now !
Best of luck
Ian
Cataract surgery is a breeze
by Gotrhythm - 2018-06-09 14:20:34
I had cataract surgery a couple of months ago, right eye, two weeks later left eye. I don't have a defibrillator, just a plain pacemaker.
Having a pacemaker was a complete non-issue. No clearance from cardiologist required, no pacemaker tech on hand. They had more questions and took more precaustions about my asthma
I was kind of nervous about anyone operating on my eyes, but really, the whole thing was a breeze. Each operation took less than 15 minutes.
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by The real Patch - 2018-06-08 18:18:21
I had both eyes done a year apart...Not a problem for your pacemaker but your heart condition is the concern. Check with your cardiologist just to be safe but shouldn't be an issue. Oh and I'm paced 100% in both ventricles and have a defibrillator.