Validation of a novel patient satisfaction questionnaire for preoperative fasting in cataract surgery: a discrimination analysis.

Objective: Preoperative fasting is routinely performed to prevent anaesthesia-related pulmonary aspiration. To capture patients' experiences with preoperative fasting, a 13-item questionnaire was developed and validated using Rasch analysis and shortened to 6 items. This extension study aims to assess this questionnaire's ability to discriminate between participants with a short versus long duration of fasting and early versus late day surgery.

A proof of concept study to evaluate the treatment response of aflibercept in wARMD using OCT-A (Canada study).

Purpose: To Utilize OCT-A to measure the change in size (mm) and density (flow index) of choroidal neovascular membranes (CNVMs) from baseline to week 52 of treatment-naïve wet age-related macular degeneration (wARMD) patients receiving intravitreal aflibercept injections (IAI).

Methods: Patients were treated with IAI at baseline, month 1 and month 2 and then every other month for a total of 12 months. Along with clinical examination and best corrected visual acuity (BCVA), OCT-A 6- and 3-mm scans were acquired at every visit between May 2017 and January 2019.

Development and Validation of a Questionnaire Assessing Patient Distress from Preoperative Fasting in Cataract Surgery.

: To develop and psychometrically validate a questionnaire to measure patient distress with preoperative fasting related to cataract surgery.: In this single-centered cross-sectional study, consecutive sampling of cataract patients was undertaken immediately preoperatively from February to December 2019. A questionnaire evaluating patient distress with fasting was designed and administered.

Bilateral sixth nerve palsies from carotid cavernous fistulas with transient worsening following transvenous embolisation.

A 59-year-old man presented with a 2-week history of binocular horizontal diplopia worse when looking to the left. He was diagnosed with a left sixth nerve palsy (6 NP) and had new bilateral findings at a 2-week follow-up with new dilated episcleral blood vessels. Bilateral carotid-cavernous fistulas (CCFs) were suspected and confirmed with CT angiography and catheter angiography.