Why choose Ms Laura Crawley for your surgery?
Ms Crawley is a consultant ophthalmic surgeon with an NHS contract at the prestigious Imperial college Healthcare NHS trust, working at their dedicated eye hospital, The Western Eye Hospital in London. She consults and operates privately at Clinica London, 140 Harley Street and at The Eye Centre at The London Clinic, 119 Harley Street.
Ms Crawley is passionate about high-quality patient care in a way that empowers patients to make decisions about eye treatments that are right for them. She offers personalised treatment plans where a doctor-patient partnership gives the best results.
Her consulting rooms have state of the art diagnostic and therapeutic capabilities. She has a highly skilled team of nurses, technicians and a clinic manager working with her to ensure that you feel cared for, supported, confident and well informed about your eyes and treatment plans.
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At present, there is no evidence to suggest that laser-assisted cataract surgery is better than the “traditional” microsurgical cataract procedure. The actual cataract removal technique is the same.
The quickest and easiest way to get rid of a chalazion!
The key to getting rid of it as soon as possible is to apply heat directly to the affected lid to dilate the blocked gland opening. This will also soften the trapped material within the blocked duct, making it easier for it to be massaged out with gentle pressure. The key to doing lid heat and massage effectively is to aim for 1-2 minutes of heat and to use a cotton flannel or muslin - they are thicker than cotton wool and will hold the heat for longer. Warm tap water is fine for heating the cloth, and it should feel soothingly warm rather than very hot. You will need to rewarm your flannel under the tap to achieve 60-90 seconds of heat and make sure that you are holding it over the opening to the blocked duct or gland. Often people hold the flannel around the eye socket, but this is too far away from the affected area to be helpful.
If you have glaucoma and need cataract surgery
A fast-track treatment for individuals with glaucoma who also need cataract surgery is a game changer because it dramatically reduces the time that patients will spend in surgery and recovery. Thanks to medical advances, both conditions can now be treated in the same operation, meaning that the recovery time for patients is exactly the same as for a single cataract operation. Laura Crawley and her colleagues at the Western Eye Hospital at Imperial College NHS Healthcare Trust were one of the first teams in the UK to offer revolutionary laser therapy and micro-stent implants to glaucoma patients.