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I read with great interest Dr. Lederman s article in the September 1985 volume of Ophthalmic Surgery, entitled "Fire Hazard During Ophthalmic Surgery."
In 1979, 1 had a very similar experience when I was doing a Scheie filtering procedure also using a hot cautery and a Weck-Cel sponge. The Weck-Cel sponge caught fire under very similar circumstances as those mentioned by Dr. Lederman; in fact, the fire jumped from the Weck-Cel sponge to the oxygen catheter. Fortunately, there was not a major disaster, and the patient ended up with mainly first degree burns...