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Welcome to Mackool Online
Not everyone can join me in the OR, but this website comes pretty close. The cases you will find here are unedited with the exception of camera view and any down time. Every step I perform in each case is included just as if you were watching through the observer scope.
We've organized our surgical videos into 4 case types: routine procedures, advanced or complicated surgical cases, a case highlighting a recently developed technique or technology, and occasionally a case by a guest surgeon.
©2014 Dr. Richard J. Mackool, MDThe machine settings, parameters, and techniques shown in these videos have been established by the surgeon. |
ABOUT DR. MACKOOL
Dr Richard Mackool is an internationally recognized expert in the field of ocular microsurgery. He is an inventor of numerous instruments and techniques for cataract removal and IOL designs, has published hundreds of papers and several textbooks, lectured throughout the world, and surgeons from every continent have travelled to New York to attend courses conducted by him. He has performed more than 50,000 ophthalmic procedures, specializing in cataract-implant surgery, corneal refractive and transplant surgery, and vitreous microsurgery. His widely-read monthly column, PhacoTips℠, appeared in Ocular Surgery News for 20 years. |