Monthly Archives: December 2019
Phaco Training: Nicotine reduces Macular Microcirculation as Reported by Cinar E, et al. in the Journal Ophthalmic Surg Lasers Imaging Retina. 2019;doi:10.3928/23258160-20191031-04.
A decrease in macular microcirculation was detected after nicotine use, according to a study. Eighteen young, healthy, nonsmoking subjects and 18 gender-matched controls were enrolled in the randomized, placebo-controlled study. Those in the study group were asked to chew 4 mg of nicotine gum while those in the control group chewed a placebo gum. OCT… Read More »
Phaco Training: Tip from LVPEI
Phaco Training: Dr. Mohan Shalini Speaks Various IOL Formulae and Optimization
Phaco Training: Dr. Vinita Gupta on Basics of Biometry – Ultimately no matter how good surgery you may perform your visual outcomes are largely dependent on the Accuracy of IOL Power Calculation
Phaco Training: Elizabeth Yeu, MD, of Virginia Eye Consultants, gives surgical pearls while showing a toric IOL malrotation adjustment procedure
SURGICAL VIDEO: Toric IOL malrotation realignment pearls Please use the link below to watch the video presentation: https://www.healio.com/ophthalmology/cataract-surgery/news/online/%7Bca3d5a18-f73d-416b-99ba-d8704e135fd6%7D/surgical-video-toric-iol-malrotation-realignment-pearls?utm_source=selligent&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ophthalmology%20news&m_bt=1319447329492
Phaco Training: John A. Hovanesian, MD, FACS on Collagen Cross Linking
Depending on how you measure it, the incidence of keratoconus is anywhere from 1% to about 2.3% of the population. That’s about 7.5 million people in the United States. With that prevalence, we should be performing at least 200,000 procedures annually in the U.S. Unfortunately, we’re performing far fewer treatments with cross-linking, according to industry… Read More »