Topics of the single wetlabs: 

Wetlab 1 - Phaco basics:

• Lecture on Wound Construction
• Capsulorhexis
• Hydrodissection
• Nuclear Disassembly Techniques and strategies
• Irrigation/Aspiration
• Lens Implantation
• Sealing the Wound
• Anterior vitrectomy
• Identifying complex cases and planning strategies
• Complications and their avoidance
• Surgical anatomy of the eye
• Intraocular pharmacology
• The Psychology of learning surgery
• The Microscope
• The Physics of Phaco

Wetlab 2 -Phaco Avanced:

• Basic steps – pearls and pitfalls
• The physics of phaco/different pumps
• Nuclear disassembly techniques and strategies
• Understanding subtypes – key to removing cataracts
• Identifying complex cases and planning strategies
• Complications
• Anterior vitrectomy
• IOL exchange
• Considerations in long and short eyes
• Subluxated crystalline and intraocular lenses
• Postoperative cataract surgery complications

Wetlab 3 - Vitrectomy:

• How the wetlab works
• Machine technology
• Vitrectomy – indications
• Vitrectomy – basic principles
• Micro Incision Vitrectomy Surgery (MIVS)
• Vitrectomy – special challenges
• Vitrectomy surface diseases
• Retinal detachment
• Vitrectomy in children
• Management of complications
• Indications and techniques for combined surgery
• Vitreoretinal surgery in traumatized eyes
• Vitrectomy – controversial & discussion