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There is more content for young eye surgeon (YES) members at the 2022 ASCRS Annual Meeting than ever before. It starts with dedicated YES Skills Labs on April 22, followed by a full day of YES programming on April 23, and several opportunities throughout the main ASCRS program.
The ASOA Annual Meeting in conjunction with the ASCRS Annual Meeting will host 1 day of Pre-Conference Deep Dives followed by 4 days of its main program, which includes general sessions, roundtables, and practice management courses.
Recaps of a few recent papers from the Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
EyeWorld honors the lives of ophthalmologists who have died recently with recognition in this space.
“This issue of EyeWorld is exciting because not only does it showcase some interesting cataract articles, but it also features previews of the 2022 ASCRS Annual Meeting,” said EyeWorld Cataract Editor Rosa Braga-Mele, MD.
Two experts discussed why IOL power misses occur, what the options are for corrective action, and how to avoid such misses in the first place.
Even with a technically perfect outcome after cataract surgery, physicians may still find that some patients are unhappy. This dissatisfaction can be due to a number of factors that go beyond visual outcome. Two surgeons shared what can cause unhappiness and how they discuss it with patients.
A patient comes in for a postop visit unhappy with their vision after they’ve received a presbyopia-correcting IOL—now what? Tal Raviv, MD, created an algorithm, the Raviv “Getting to Happy” Post-IOL Algorithm, to help guide physicians through the process of managing a patient who is unhappy with their presbyopia-correcting IOL.
According to Tal Raviv, MD, comanagement has been a part of ophthalmology for more than 40 years as a means to coordinate surgical ophthalmic care among different provider types. “It has regained attention and scrutiny with the growth of refractive cataract surgery,” he said. “But today’s practice environment is quite different from the past.”
“If there was ever a top 10 list of issues on which eyecare as a whole could ‘up its game,’ it should include the fact that we all need to be more aggressive about educating patients on the fact that they can create their own self-induced keratoconus by repetitive pressure on their eyes,” according to EyeWorld Refractive Editor Vance Thompson, MD.