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25<br />

CORE MESSAGES<br />

AMO Sovereign with WhiteStar Technology<br />

Richard S. Hoffman, I. Howard Fine, Mark Packer<br />

2 The addition of WhiteStar technology to the Sovereign machine<br />

reduces thermal escalation at the wound while maintaining the<br />

cutting efficiency seen with continuous-mode ultrasound and<br />

improving nuclear fragment followability.<br />

2 Markedly reduced thermal energy at the incision site allows for safe<br />

bimanual microincision phacoemulsification without the need for<br />

a cooling irrigation sleeve.<br />

2 The Sovereign Compact maintains many of the desirable features of<br />

the Sovereign. The reduced cost of the Sovereign Compact and its<br />

easy portability should make it a competitive phacoemulsification<br />

unit in today’s market.<br />

One of the more advanced and versatile phacoemulsification<br />

machines on the market today<br />

is the AMO Sovereign (Advanced Medical<br />

Optics, Santa Ana, CA). The Sovereign offers<br />

all of the traditional features of phacoemulsification<br />

machines and has been recently upgraded<br />

with the addition of WhiteStar technology.<br />

WhiteStar is a new technology in that<br />

an ultrapulse mode is able to modulate the<br />

delivery of energy by changing both the duration<br />

and the frequency of ultrasonic vibrations.<br />

Energy is delivered in extremely brief,<br />

microsecond bursts, interrupted by rest intervals.<br />

The burst length and rest period can be<br />

varied independently of each other, yielding<br />

numerous modes of varying duty cycles to<br />

choose from (Fig. 25.1).<br />

The addition of WhiteStar technology to<br />

the Sovereign machine reduces thermal escalation<br />

at the wound while maintaining<br />

the cutting efficiency seen with continuousmode<br />

ultrasound and improving nuclear fragment<br />

followability [1]. Reduced thermal energy<br />

results from the ultrashort delivery of<br />

energy and the interval rest period.Despite the<br />

short bursts of energy, each pulse of WhiteStar<br />

ultrasound has been demonstrated to deliver<br />

similar cutting ability as that delivered with<br />

continuous-mode ultrasound. This has been<br />

demonstrated by Dr Mark E. Schafer, wherein<br />

the acoustical energy of WhiteStar pulses was<br />

transposed into electrical signals using a<br />

transducer. Similarly, the acoustical signal of<br />

continuous-mode phacoemulsification was

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