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Should some ophthalmic surgery safety protocols be reevaluated?

During the COVID-19 pandemic, one non-Western country implemented new operating room (OR) protocols that are common in many Western practices aimed to reduce the cataract surgical postoperative endophthalmitis (POE) rate. After analyzing pre-and post-POE rates, researchers argue that adopting the new protocol did not reduce the rate of POE and...