Today, we Zoom called Alan Franklin, an eye doctor and surgeon specializing in diabetes and the retina. Diabetes causes problems with the eye such as bleeding or holes in the retina that need to be fixed. Eye work has to be very precise, or it can go very wrong. The eye sits in a socket in the skull with seven different bones surrounding it and also nerves that go through it that connect it to the brain. The brain dedicates forty to fifty percent of its power and energy to the visual system. One of the main parts of the eye is the retina. It lines seventy percent of the eye and helps us with night vision. Sometimes in surgery, doctors make punctures in the eye to get to the retina and suck the gel from the back of the eye with special instruments. They usually look through a 3D camera on a microscope that goes into the iris as part of a laparoscopic procedure. In the HYPERVIT, doctors use probes to suck up scar tissue and blood in the eye of diabetes patients. In Vitreous Blood Suppressions, they shift the color of laparoscopic photos to enhance the view of the blood excess in the eye. They can unblock veins in the eye by clearing the blood they just made easier to look through. Doctors also peel clear films the width of a credit card from the retina, sometimes even staining the eye to help with visibility. Despite sounding extremely complicated to where they need to take a long time, most eye surgeries only take 37 minutes to an hour. I'm glad that they don’t take too long because all the stuff they do to the eye sounds painful!
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