Deloitte August 21, 2018
It has been centuries—reportedly dating back to the fifth century—since the first cataract removal. As far back as the mid-1700s, patients went under the knife to remove lenses that had become hard and opaque, leaving them with restored but limited, and mostly unfocused, vision after the surgery. During those years, cataract surgeries were saved for only the most advanced cases, and some patients didn’t survive.1 During the procedure, sandbags typically were used to immobilize the patient’s head. After the surgery, patients had to stay in a facility where they could be monitored as they healed.
Fast-forward to today: This once dangerous and seldom-recommended surgery is performed about 2 million times per year in the US. Cataract surgery is believed to...
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