April 15, 2018

Features

Low Vision

Proceed With Caution: Low Vision and Driving

Here’s how you can navigate the complex interplay between DMV standards and the needs of your patients who are visually impaired.

Optometric Study Center

Protocols and Pitfalls in Topical Steroid Use

It’s always a balancing act between benefit and side effects. Here’s how to keep patients safe while treating with steroids.

Pharmaceuticals

Know Your Systemic Meds: The Top 10 to Track

Here’s what you need to know about the ocular effects of the heavy-hitters.

One Size Won’t Fit All: Treating Ocular Infection

Knowing which antibiotic to choose and how to use it are critical when treating and beating ocular infection.

Sizing Up Anti-inflammatories in Dry Eye Disease

A practical guide for optometrists applying these medications.

Departments

Chairside

The Extinction of the Ink Pen

…and other things. What’s in your pile of office junk you never use anymore?

Clinical Quandaries

Taking the Floor on Fractures

When a mishap puts an orbital floor fracture in your chair, know how to look past the gore and devise a plan.

Coding Connection

No Sneaking Around this Code

Modifier -59 should be a last resort. Here’s how to use it wisely.

Cornea and Contact Lens Q & A

Trouble with Thygeson’s

Management for these cases can be quick if done right. However, an exact cause for the disease is still elusive.

Diagnostic Quiz

There Will Be Blood

Focus on Refraction

Fresnel Prism to the Rescue

Finding the perfect prism can take time and patience, but once it fits, it sticks.

Glaucoma Grand Rounds

The Devil is in the Details

When a glaucoma suspect progresses, it’s time to transition from monitoring to treating. But what happens when devices differ?

Letters to the Editor

Here, we reply to some of the criticism, praise and suggestions generated by one of our recent features.

Outlook

A Significant Proposal

Want better clinical outomes? Demand better study design, experts say.

Retina Dilemmas

Hold ’em or Fold ’em?

Better treatment options for DME give us more flexibility, but also more responsibility. We need to use anti-VEGF prudently—if at all.

Retina Quiz

Something in the Way

What’s behind our patient’s transient episodes of dimming vision?

Surgical Minute

The MIGS Just Keep on Coming

Two new devices expand the treatment portfolio and target novel pathways.

Therapeutic Review

Take Your Lumps

The searching for a solution that works for hordeolum, every time, continues.

Through My Eyes

Just Say Yes to (Some) Drugs

Don’t shy away from prescribing the right medications when your patients need them.