During my last eye exam my optometrist advised me to call the office in case of a sudden increase in floaters, which might warn of a condition common in the myopic and potentially progressing to retinal detachment, but which can be easily treated during an office visit by a process I understood to involve lasers.
I didn't name the procedure because, not yet having needed to study it, I don't know what it is called. (I don't recall the proper name of the floater-producing, dangerous but ameliorable condition, either.) But I understood its intent to be preventing any risk of progressive loss of vision, rather than removing the floaters directly. Maybe we're talking about two different things, though.
Yes if floaters increase or change agree go to hospital or optometrist immediately.
As for asking for the name it is that which helps to see that we talk about the same thing without that it is impossible to know what you are talking about.
And that laser one is the one that there is an issue with.
In the UK my doctors and NHS notes say there is no evidence that this works.
The removal of the vitreous humour does work but the doctors at Moorfields, the top UK eye hospital, do not recommend it as it has what they say is a high risk of making things worse. They will do it but you have to be really really certain that the floaters are impossible to live with.
The one thing that I believe it is successful for is if people have floaters that are suspended directly in their fovea by adhesions to other parts of the eye. They use the laser to cut the ’ligaments’ so it can float away.
I’m not sure ‘breaking up’ floaters would even be desirable, they are still going to be in there making visual noise.
Thus a link to the process would be useful - even if searching for reviews of that process would show it does not work.