Cataract surgery is one of the most common types of surgical procedures in the world, according to the National Institutes of Health. But for it to be successful, patients need to be on a detailed eye drop regimen both before and after the surgery.
The biggest problem? The schedule of when and what eye drops to take can be incredibly confusing to the average person. One bottle is just used in the first week while another lasts an entire month, and certain drops need to be taken at specific times through the day.
After his own wife went through the surgery in 2014, Dr. Robin Brady of SouthEast Eye Specialists became convinced that most patients probably weren’t taking the drops correctly.
“She asked me every day how to use the drops correctly – she literally drove me nuts,” Brady says. “So, I came up with this idea to put all three drops in one bottle.”
But it’s not exactly that easy, so Brady recruited the help of Dr. Randy Davis.