Browse articles from EyeWorld.org related to antibiotics. EyeWorld is the award-winning member publication of ASCRS. The magazine provides news and updates from the Society as well as clinical features in the areas of cataract, refractive, cornea, glaucoma, and practice management. It publishes quarterly with editorial direction from its medical editorial board and staff.
To assess the effect of the ESCRS randomized clinical trial on antibiotic prophylaxis practice patterns, the ASCRS Cataract Clinical Committee has conducted member surveys at 7-year intervals, starting in 2007, on the topic of antibiotic prophylaxis for cataract surgery. In this article, David F. Chang, MD, described the results from the latest survey conducted in 2021.
Infection is a risk for any ocular surgery, but there are a few reasons why there isn’t a lot of discussion about infection when it comes to glaucoma procedures. MIGS, which have become increasingly common, have a lower infection risk profile compared to incisional glaucoma surgery.
Newer steroid and NSAID options (and some off-label administration of antibiotics) that are delivered either via injection or intracanalicular insert can help avoid complicating a patient’s drop regimen that is already subject to non-compliance, instillation issues, potential for ocular surface agitation, and more.
A common but underdiagnosed condition, blepharitis presents the clinician with several challenges. Not only is diagnosis complicated by the frequent co-occurrence of other ocular surface conditions with similar symptoms, but traditional regimens to treatment have been largely unsatisfactory.
