Improving the consent process for cataract surgery

Abstract

Saeed Azizi, Abdirahman Osman, Omer Ali Faculty of Medicine, St George’s Hospital Medical School, London, UKWe read the article by Vo et al1 with great interest. Vo et al1 highlighted that multimedia can act as an adjunct for consenting patients for cataract surgery. The article further brings to light the importance of the consent process and how this may change in the future with further accessibility to multimedia.View the original paper by Vo and colleagues.

Keywords

• Ophthalmology
• Cataract surgery
• consent
• multimedia
• interactive learning