Malignant glaucoma is a rare complication, but it’s still something surgeons need to be on the lookout for after surgery, especially in the early postoperative period.
When it comes to ophthalmic surgery, ergonomics play an important role. Two surgeons discussed how they consider ergonomics in everyday practice, equipment and strategies to help, and its role in glaucoma surgery.
While most practices have mastered the initial impact of COVID-19, a second phase of challenges has emerged. Staffing shortages, recruiting difficulties, and hostile patients are peaking as practices do their best to adjust to these new realities. Here are several ways to be well-prepared if hostility is directed at you by a patient.
There are many frameworks available to help facilitate cybersecurity plans and so much advice and material online that it can result in analysis paralysis. A good place to start is with a standardized, well-supported framework to give you a map and what to do along the way, like the National Institute of Science and Technology Cybersecurity Framework (NIST CSF).
Eric Donnenfeld, MD, EyeWorld chief medical editor, discussed EyeWorld’s 25-year history.
The ASCRS Foundation’s mission is to provide humanitarian cataract surgery and support physician education in the U.S. and in developing countries. Join ASCRS’ philanthropic pillar and make a difference today.
“Ophthalmology Quicksand Chronicles,” an ASCRS podcast hosted by Nicole Fram, MD, and Elizabeth Yeu, MD, features an expert guest on each episode who shares their “quicksand moments” in the OR, lessons learned from those moments, and how these vulnerable situations ultimately helped them evolve as surgeons.
Hans Andrews, MD, ophthalmology resident, Vanderbilt Eye Institute, summarized “Aerosol generation during phacoemulsification in live patient cataract surgery environment” from the June edition of the ASCRS Journal Club.
Hetal Ray, MD, ophthalmology resident, Yale Eye Center, provided a summary of “Reoperation for complications within 90 days of minimally invasive glaucoma surgery” from the July edition of the ASCRS Journal Club.
EyeWorld looks back on key milestones in the magazine’s history and in ophthalmology as it celebrates 25 years.