Texas Administrative Code
Title 25 - HEALTH SERVICES
Part 7 - TEXAS MEDICAL DISCLOSURE PANEL
Chapter 602 - PROCEDURE REQUIRING FULL DISCLOSURE OF SPECIFIC RISKS AND HAZARDS-LIST A
Section 602.6 - Eye Treatments and Procedures
Universal Citation: 25 TX Admin Code ยง 602.6
Current through Reg. 49, No. 38; September 20, 2024
(a) Eye muscle surgery.
(1) Additional treatment and/or
surgery.
(2) Double
vision.
(3) Partial or total
blindness.
(b) Surgery for cataract with or without implantation of intraocular lens.
(1) Complications requiring additional
treatment and/or surgery.
(2) Need
for glasses or contact lenses.
(3)
Complications requiring the removal of implanted lens.
(4) Partial or total blindness.
(c) Retinal or vitreous surgery.
(1) Complications requiring additional
treatment and/or surgery.
(2)
Recurrence or spread of disease.
(3) Partial or total blindness.
(d) Reconstructive and/or plastic surgical procedures of the eye and eye region, such as blepharoplasty, tumor, fracture, lacrimal surgery, foreign body, abscess, or trauma.
(1) Blindness.
(2) Nerve damage with loss of use and/or
feeling to eye or other areas of face.
(3) Painful or unattractive
scarring.
(4) Worsening or
unsatisfactory appearance.
(5) Dry
eye.
(e) Photocoagulation and/or cryotherapy.
(1)
Complications requiring additional treatment and/or surgery.
(2) Pain.
(3) Partial or total blindness.
(f) Corneal surgery, such as corneal transplant, refractive surgery and pterygium.
(1) Complications requiring additional
treatment and/or surgery.
(2)
Pain.
(3) Need for glasses or
contact lenses.
(4) Partial or
total blindness.
(g) Glaucoma surgery by any method.
(1)
Complications requiring additional treatment and/or surgery.
(2) Worsening of the glaucoma.
(3) Pain.
(4) Partial or total blindness.
(h) Removal of the eye or its contents (enucleation or evisceration).
(1)
Complications requiring additional treatment and/or surgery.
(2) Worsening or unsatisfactory
appearance.
(3) Recurrence or
spread of disease.
(i) Surgery for penetrating ocular injury, including intraocular foreign body.
(1) Complications requiring additional
treatment and/or surgery.
(2)
Possible removal of eye.
(3)
Pain.
(4) Partial or total
blindness.
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