March 2021 Articles

ASCRS NEWS

  1. A year to remember
  2. Geoff Tabin, MD, and Sanduk Ruit, MD, selected for 2021 ASCRS Foundation Chang-Crandall Humanitarian Award
  3. Review of “Quantifying the educational benefit of additional cataract surgery cases in ophthalmology residency”
  4. Review of “Patient management modifications in cataract surgery candidates following incorporation of routine preoperative macular OCT”
  5. Review of “Diffuse lamellar keratitis after LASIK with low-energy femtosecond laser”
  6. 20/Happy in 2020 recap
  7. ASCRS prepares for 2021 Annual Meeting in Las Vegas
  8. Understanding the ASCRS grant process and ASCRS Clinical Survey
  9. Update on COVID-19 vaccines
  10. ASCRS Grand Rounds recap
  11. JCRS Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery In the journal: February2021

CATARACT

  1. Adapting and acclimatizing
  2. Will the pandemic push ISBCS acceptance?
  3. What’s new in the world of IOLs
  4. Paper highlights iris defects caused by cataract surgery
  5. Performing cataract surgery with retina abnormalities
  6. The pros and cons of office-based cataract surgery
  7. Could the seasons impact endophthalmitis rates?

CORNEA

  1. A variety of cornea topics explored
  2. Handling vernal conjunctivitis
  3. Keratoconus screening in the U.S.
  4. Demodex update: background, signs and symptoms, and treatment
  5. Herpes zoster update

GLAUCOMA

  1. Glaucoma’s new direction
  2. Options to reduce postop cataract surgery drops for glaucoma patients
  3. Durysta a year later: Physicians discuss early experience
  4. Streamlining glaucoma care

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT

  1. Facility development in the peri-COVID era
  2. 2021 medical marketing: The mindset practices need to attract COVID-era patients
  3. How has COVID-19 changed your practice?

REFRACTIVE

  1. Looking back on the past year
  2. Using AK/LRIs to correct astigmatism
  3. The utility of epithelial mapping
  4. Technology, screening improvements decrease already low refractive surgery ectasia risk
  5. Technologies for achieving better outcomes