Glaucoma interventions: An update
Dr Douglas Clarkson explores recent developments in glaucoma including minimally invasive glaucoma surgery...
When myopia and BV collide
In this CPD article, Claire McDonnell delves into the important area of progressive myopia in children where strabismus or anisometropia are present. Readers will learn about situations where ophthalm...
The changing landscape of visual impairment and blindness in the UK
Dr Alexander Silvester discusses the epidemiology of eye disease, vision loss and sight impairment ...
Seeing the risks: Vision, falls and frailty in older adults
Falls are the most common cause of hospitalisation in over-65s and poor vision can double the risk. However, vision remains the element most often missing when assessing falls risk. Randy Bains sets o...
Conjunctivochalasis: When the conjunctiva loses its architecture
Sarah Farrant explores the often overlooked ocular condition of conjunctivochalasis, and the condition it is often mistaken for, limbal palpebral conjunctival folds...
Clinical decision-making in contact lens-related dry eye: Management and review
In the third article in her clinical decision-making series, Baljit Sagoo examines how practitioners can use targeted interventions and review findings to refine dry eye management in contact lens wea...
OCT masterclass 10: Looking forward – the future for OCT
In this, the final edition of his OCT masterclass series, Jason Higginbotham looks at where and how ocular OCT is likely to develop in the future and how this might affect and improve the daily clinic...
Management of community-referred ophthalmic cases in a teleophthalmology outpatient clinic
Niraj Patel examines how optometrists are transforming outpatient care in ophthalmology through community-based eye care services and offers evidence of these improvements...
Binocular vision anomalies: what can I do in practice? Part 1 — Building the foundations
In the first part of this series Natalie Gibbings, Wasim Sarwar and Shamina Asif look into the intricacies of assessing and treating issues with binocular vision ...
Clinical decision-making in contact lens-related dry eye: Assessment and diagnosis
Dry eye symptoms are among the most common presentations in contact lens practice. In the second article in her series, Baljit Sagoo applies a clinical decision-making framework to help practitioners ...
Occluding contact lenses
Contact lens optician Graeme Stevenson reviews a case of a military veteran requiring a contact lens occluder...
History and symptoms 1: The importance of non-verbal communication
Dr Amit Jinabhai explores the key components of non-verbal communication and how they play a role when taking a patient’s history and symptoms...