Office workers: How many days of leave do I need to take to undergo myopia surgery?

How many days of leave do I need to take for myopia surgery?

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As an office worker, asking for leave is actually more difficult than resigning. Before asking for leave, there are all kinds of inner thoughts, such as whether the boss is in a good mood today, whether it is appropriate to ask for leave, whether the project will arrange meetings and overtime, and how much salary will be deducted if I take a few days off?

Various practical problems have deterred those who have been wanting to have myopia surgery for a long time. They have been struggling over whether they need to take leave for myopia surgery, how many days of leave they need, and whether they can use their rest time for surgery.

After reading the following content, perhaps your concerns will be dispelled!

Preoperative consultation and examination: half a day

Myopia surgery is not complicated, so it won’t take too much time to understand. The convenient and accurate way is to go directly to the hospital to consult a refractive specialist.

In order to achieve customized and personalized correction, myopia surgery has more than 20 strict preoperative examinations, including basic medical optometry, intraocular pressure, corneal thickness, detailed corneal morphology, and fundus conditions. It can be said that the examination of myopia surgery is a general physical examination for the eyes, which fully excludes various eye diseases. The examination takes about 2 hours.

Zhang Qingsong, deputy chief physician, member of the Refractive Subcommittee of the Ophthalmology Committee of the China Association of Non-public Medical Institutions, and director of the Refractive Department of the Aier Eye Hospital Affiliated to Wuhan University (Aier Eye Hospital Group Hubei Headquarters), specially reminds: stop wearing soft contact lenses for 1 week, stop wearing hard contact lenses and soft contact lenses with astigmatism for 3 weeks, and stop wearing orthokeratology lenses for 3 months; fundus examination and eye examination require mydriasis, so when going to the hospital for examination, be sure not to drive or ride a bike to the hospital by yourself.

Preoperative examination and surgery cannot be done on the same day. During the preoperative examination, fundus examination and optometry are performed by dilating the pupil. Sufficient rest time is required to restore the eyes to normal state. In addition, according to relevant national standards, antibiotic eye drops need to be applied for 1-3 days according to the doctor's order before myopia surgery to prevent infection.

Normally, preoperative examination and surgical plan design take half a day.

Surgery time: half a day

In fact, myopia surgery is sophisticated in equipment and program design. As for the surgical process, it is not as complicated as everyone imagines. The time in the operating room is only half an hour to an hour. As long as you cooperate accordingly according to the doctor's instructions, excluding the time for disinfection and waiting, the operation may only take more than ten minutes. However, in order to reserve time for postoperative education, observation, and rest, it is recommended that you set aside half a day.

ICL implantation: two days

ICL lens implantation surgery is a myopia correction surgery that involves implanting a special lens in the eye that can be removed at any time. However, the removal of the lens also needs to be done on a sterile operating table. It should be noted that the lens cannot be used again after it is removed.

Liu Hongting, PhD, associate chief physician, master's supervisor, deputy director of the refractive department of Aier Eye Hospital Affiliated to Wuhan University (Aier Eye Hospital Group Hubei General Hospital), said: Unlike laser surgery, ICL lenses need to be specially customized, but this process does not require leave, just take time to go to the hospital to customize the lens. After the lens is delivered, you can make an appointment with the surgeon. At present, the ICL lens implantation surgery at Aier Eye Hospital Affiliated to Wuhan University is performed on both eyes separately, one eye on the same day and the second eye on the next day. The specific arrangement is determined by the doctor based on the examination results and the actual situation of the patient. Therefore, two days are generally required for ICL lens implantation.

Postoperative recovery: Use your eyes normally the next day

You can go home on the same day of the surgery without hospitalization, but you need to pay attention to the scientific use of your eyes. Although the surgery does not affect watching mobile phones, computers, playing games, etc., you need to control the use time. After every 30-40 minutes of watching, stop to let your eyes rest for 10 minutes, look into the distance and relax for a while to avoid eye fatigue. Therefore, you can basically live and work normally 1-2 days after the surgery.

You need to go to the hospital for a follow-up examination on the first day after surgery. If there are no special circumstances, the time is about 0.5 hours. Other follow-up examinations should be done regularly on time according to the doctor's instructions.

Reasonable surgery time arrangement

Therefore, for workers who need to go to work during normal working hours, a more reasonable surgery schedule is as follows: first, ensure that the condition of your eyes meets the conditions for preoperative examination, then use your rest time to go to the hospital for a preoperative examination one week in advance, make an appointment for surgery after the examination, and generally go to work if there are no problems with the follow-up examination the next day after the surgery.

In general, there is no need to take time off for myopia surgery, and a weekend is basically enough. Of course, the specific appointment time needs to be confirmed according to your own situation and the hospital's surgery schedule. For those who are in a hurry, it is better to consult and make an appointment earlier so that you can arrange your ideal time as much as possible!