Aeroplanes rarely crash nowadays, therefore they don’t need pilots: anaesthesia, anaesthetists and cataract surgery – response

Routine cataract surgery without the presence of an anaesthetist

“…In a later publication Guise criticizes an ophthalmologist for his choice of sedation 4 . Interestingly, we have found that by regularly reassuring the patient, and by having someone hold the patient's hand during surgery, we have reduced our need for sedation to almost zero.…”