Refractive Lens Surgery
Refractive Lens Surgery
Refractive Lens Surgery
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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