The development of new ophthalmic tools has recently been made possible by the unique characteristics of plasma

BANGALORE, INDIA, November 12, 2015 /EINPresswire.com/ -- New frontiers in many areas of modern living have been opened up with the development of plasma whose unique characteristics have identified it as the fourth state of matter—after solid, liquid and gas.

The development of new ophthalmic tools has recently been made possible by the unique characteristics of plasma.

Depending on the purpose of the device, medical devices may be designed to produce either thermal or non-thermal plasma. Depending on the nature of the plasma being generated, it can serve to act as a blade when plasma comes into contact with tissue or to kill bacteria without causing structural tissue damage. It can also trigger apoptosis in cancer cells without harming healthy cells.

One of the plasma based technologies that is used in ophthalmology is the Fugo plasma blade which is a portable, battery-powered, solid-state system that uses C-cell batteries. The device focuses the energy on a blunt hair-thin ablation or cutting filament after it conditions the energy in a portable, solid-state console. A controllable and visible plasma column is produced by the energy field. This plasma blade allows pristine, clean incision walls based on nanotechnology stripping of tissue molecules, thereby eliminating the charring or incision wall damage seen in most other standard electrosurgical systems. Apart from this it kills any microbes in the incision path.

This blade is used in ophthalmologic processes like capsulotomy for cataract surgery and has allowed ophthalmologists to provide a unique ability to manage difficult cases, as well as an ability to surgically manage capsular tears. No postoperative graft decompensation has been reported in more than 10 years as the plasma blade capsulotomy can be performed beneath a penetrating keratoplasty graft.

Placing of an ablation filament tip under the iris and then slowly ablating a 360° capsulotomy, after which the nucleus is impaled and pulled into the pupil with the phaco tip which can help patients with intraoperative floppy iris syndrome and their conditions can thus easily be managed. All the while the surgeon’s second hand is injecting viscoelastic material behind the nucleus.

Other plasma based ophthalmologic surgeries that are helped by the plasma blade are iridotomy, pupilloplasty and the transciliary filtration procedure.

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