Psychiatric Evaluations for LASIK Candidates
Preceding the American Academy of Ophthalmology Meeting, Jennifer Morse M.D. who worked with patients at the Navy Refractive Surgery Center in San Diego, concluded that a psychiatric examination may be able to identify some of the post-operative dissatisfied patients.
Three hundred and nine patients who were scheduled to undergo a LASIK procedure received a questionnaire before surgery and 6 months after surgery.
Dr Morse concluded:
Uncorrected visual acuity only accounted for 82% of all the dissatisfied post-op cases.”
Dr. Morse stressed during her presentation that these people are a very important subset of the population because these are the people that are talking about the procedure in the community and can even potentially file lawsuits.
March 25th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
The key to any successful procedure is patient expectation. As long as patient expectations are reasonable, and the surgeon has properly articulated the risks, and outcomes, LASIK surgery is indeed a very good option for permanent vision correction.
April 3rd, 2008 at 9:01 pm
The key to any successful procedure is patient expectation. As long as patient expectations are reasonable, and the surgeon has properly articulated the risks, and outcomes, LASIK surgery is indeed a very good option for permanent vision correction.