And lastly, I want to mention what we call the aspiration bypass stabilizer, the ABS.
You can see it pictured on the right side here of the screen.
And on the bottom you see a small hole that's actually drilled in the shaft of
the phaco needle.
And what this does is actually allows some fluid to go into the phaco handpiece even
when the tip is occluded, as it's supposed to be demonstrated in this picture here.
So with some fluid flow,
there's actually dampening of surge once the occlusion does break.
And we can see at the right side here,
the green line represents our maximum pre-set vacuum.
And on the top we've reach our maximum pre-set vacuum by the red bar with
the occlusion of the phaco tip.
On the bottom we can actually see that because there's some fluid flow our
pre-set vacuum is never reach by the actual vacuum which is
represented by the red bar here.
So you sometimes have to actually account for this and raise your maximum pre-set
vacuum a little bit, in these cases when you have the ABS in place.
But it should help to reduce the amount of surge,
potentially reduce your complications.