Cataract surgery takes around 45 minutes. It’s usually done under local anaesthetic, so you should be able to go home on the same day. The idea of having an eye operation awake may be daunting, but it’s much safer than being put to sleep. There are different levels of local anaesthet...
preoperative area, about 30 minutes after arrival, on arrival in the operating room and on arrival in the postoperative area, on a visual analogue scale graded from 0 ("None" [or "Wide awake" in the case of sedation]) to 10 ("Worst possible" [or "Asleep" in the case of sedation])...