CHICAGO — Looking at accidents when they occur, analyzing and understanding them, and incorporating them into system designs are key for improving the refractive surgery field, according to a speaker here.
“Refractive surgery has come of age,” Guy M. Kezirian, MD, MBA, FACS, said during a keynote presentation at Refractive Surgery Subspecialty Day at the American Academy of Ophthalmology meeting. “It is now a stand-alone specialty, much like plastic surgery.”
Kezirian said that refractive errors are attacks on vision that put people at a disadvantage from birth and