Books and manuals
Cataract Services
Author: Aravind
Publisher: LAICO www.v2020eresource.org
Description: This booklet provides information on the cataract disease, its types, evaluation, lowvision aids, surgical management, surgical techniques, surgery outcome and the complications.
Link: PDF (640Kb)
Cataract Surgery Protocol
Author: Aravind
Publisher: LAICO www.v2020eresource.org
Description: Useful set of standards. Covers patient examination, preoperative techniques and discharge as well as the surgery.
Link: PDF (167Kb)
Quality
Assurance in Cataract Surgery
Author: Dr Jacob Mathew, Dr
Mina M. Mathew
Publisher: LAICO www.v2020eresource.org
Description: A guide to quality
assurance in cataract surgery. Topics covered include pre-operative
medication, anaesthesia, surgical procedure and post-operative
care.
Link: PDF (235Kb)
Quality Cataract Surgery Series
Author: Aravind/SEVA Foundation
Publisher: LAICO www.v2020eresource.org
Published: 2001
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- Introduction
Description: This booklet introduces cataract and VISION 2020: The Right to Sight.
PDF (130Kb)
- Clinical Strategies
Description: This module deals with benchmarks for monitoring quality volume and sustainability, evolution of cataract surgical techniques, clinical strategies, IOL microsurgery training course, and manual phaco extraction training course. There are also appendices on preoperative evaluation, preoperative preparation and anesthesia, intraoperative considerations, postoperative management and pediatric cataract.
PDF (745Kb)
- Paramedical Contributions
Description: This module helps the eye care programmes/ hospitals/ practitioners in developing countries with lessons learned regarding the work of trained paramedical ophthalmic assistants and their critical contributions to high quality, large volume, and sustainable cataract surgery programmes.
PDF (250Kb)
- Management Principles and Practices
Description: It is an effective management system which ensures high quality and large volume cataract surgery can be maintained.
PDF (325Kb)
- Community Outreach Initiatives
Description: This module details the purposes of community outreach, community outreach activities in various fields, challenges in community outreach and methods to overcome it for improving patient awareness and increasing the uptake of cataract services.
PDF (520Kb)
- Financial Sustainability
Description: This module gives examples and models, cost recovery issue, cost recovery principles and also a cost recovery exercise to record lessons learned in the achievement of cost recovery in eye care programmes.
PDF (215Kb)
- Architectural Design
Description: This module is useful for several different architectural projects such as building a new facility on a new site, adding another building to the current site , acquiring an existing building and renovating it, renting an existing bilding and negotiating with the landlord to make changes to and redesigning and renovating the current building.
PDF (415Kb)
Reports and documents
Willingness and ability to pay for cataract surgery: a study in Tanzania
Authors: Susan Lewallen, Robert Geneau, Michael Mahande
Publisher: KCCO www.kcco.net
Description: This report reviews the existing information on the capacity and willingness to pay for cataract surgery among cataract patients and their families and gives findings on two different field studies (using both quantitative and qualitative methods) on capacity and willingness to pay among cataract patients in Tanzania.
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Software and tools
Monitoring Cataract Surgical Outcome
Author: Hans Limburg, ICEH
Publisher: ICEH
Published: 2005
Description: Software packages and tools to monitor the visual outcome of cataract surgery, and many supporting documents and instruction guides.
Link: FULL TEXT & DOWNLOADS
Teaching sets
Manual Small Incision Cataract Surgery Teaching Module
Author: G. Madhavi
Publisher: Project ORBIS International Inc
Published: 2006
Description: A training module for manual small incision cataract surgery, including pictures and many videos.
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