by Amar Agarwal (Editor)
Even the most experienced refractive surgeon can encounter stressful situations in the operating room. Be prepared to manage unavoidable and challenging complications with Refractive Surgery Nightmares: Conquering Refractive Surgery Catastrophes by your side.

Dr. Amar Agarwal, along with contributions from 67 of today’s leading refractive surgery experts, explains all there is to know about refractive surgery techniques in Refractive Surgery Nightmares to help you stay in control when facing unique surgical challenges.

Refractive Surgery Nightmares provides surgeons with a solid understanding of preoperative examinations, surface ablation procedures, LASIK, and lens based surgeries and the tricky situations that can arise and turn into every surgeon’s worst nightmare.

Refractive Surgery Complications Include:
DLK and corneal infections
Topographic and wavefront aberrometry disasters
Femtosecond laser complications
Post LASIK Ectasia
Decentered ablations
Iatrogenic keratectasia
More than 250 illustrations and clinical photographs supplement the important information presented, providing visual as well as textual references. Also included is an accompanying video CD-ROM with 45 minutes of instructional video techniques that supplements the text.

Video CD-ROM Includes:
Post LASIK Iatrogenic Keratectasia
Flap Complications
Bimanual phacoemulsification
Phakic IOL
Hyperopic shifts after Radial keratotomy
Cataract after radial keratotomy
This distinctive text and video CD-ROM will make its mark with everyone involved in refractive surgery, from the resident to the experienced surgeon. Feel competent and comfortable in the operating room no matter what challenge comes your way with Refractive Surgery Nightmares: Conquering Refractive Surgery Catastrophes.

From the Foreword:

“A copy of this book belongs in the reference library of every refractive surgery center – and, so to speak, under the pillow of every refractive surgeon.”

— Prof. Thomas Neuhann, MD

Winner!

Refractive Surgery Nightmares Video CD-ROM presented by Dr. Amar Agarwal, received the best video award for the video Battle of the Bulge, presented during the Video Symposium on Challenging Case, Corneal Refractive Surgery held at the Videocataractrefractive 2006 in Italy.

Refractive Surgery Nightmares Video CD-ROM presented by Soosan Jacob, received the second best award for the video Battle of the Bulge, presented during the 2006 American Society for Cataract and Refractive Surgeons Annual Meeting.

Flap Wars Video, presented by Dr. Amar Agarwal, received first prize in the video awards held at the 2007 European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons conference in Sweden.