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Cataract surgery takes longer in functionally monocular patients.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES
To determine differences in the amount of work involved in caring for functionally monocular patients who undergo cataract surgery compared with binocularly sighted patients.


PATIENTS AND METHODS
This was a retrospective study that included 100 consecutive functionally monocular patients and 100 binocularly sighted control patients matched by age (+/-5 years) and date of surgery ( +/-1 year). Office records were reviewed to determine several measures of office and operating room work effort.


RESULTS
There was no difference between groups in preoperative telephone calls (P = .136), postoperative telephone calls (P = .580), preoperative office visits (P = .875), postoperative office visits (P = .601), or the number of times surgery was scheduled (P = 1.00). Monocular patients required more time for surgery (37.4 minutes) than binocular patients (32.4 minutes) (P= .010).


CONCLUSIONS
It takes longer to perform cataract surgery on functionally monocular patients than on binocularly sighted patients.