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Minor update proposal
We are proposing to make a minor update on recommendation 1.6.3 in the Cataracts guideline (NICE guideline NG77) to ensure the recommendation does not unduly discourage clinicians from using shared decision making to offer a choice of immediate sequential bilateral cataract surgery or delayed surgery to patients.
The current guideline recommendation wording is:
1.6.3 Consider bilateral simultaneous cataract surgery for:
people who are at low risk of ocular complications during and after surgery or
people who need to have general anaesthesia for cataract surgery but for whom general anaesthesia carries an increased risk of complications or distress.
The proposed updated wording is:
1.6.3 Offer a choice of either immediate sequential bilateral cataract surgery or first-eye surgery followed by delayed second eye-surgery to people who:
are at low risk of ocular complications during or after surgery or
need to have general anaesthesia.
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