Today's Spotlight

Overcoming Obstacles with Scleral Lens Fitting

Follow along with these two tough cases to sharpen your techniques and help set expectations for patients with severe corneal compromise.
Today's Spotlight

Fade to Black

Q: I have seen several post-op cataract patients who complain of blacking out of vision when going from a sitting to standing position. The eye looks fine. What is going on?

Today's Spotlight

Master Elevation-driven Contact Lens Fitting

See how prioritizing sagittal metrics is changing the approach to design across modalities.
Today's Spotlight

Jot It All Down

Looking back at memories of family and patients is priceless.

Today's Spotlight

Lessons Learned at ARVO 2024

An abstract review of the latest, intriguing and clinically practical cornea and contact lens research papers presented at this year’s meeting.
 
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June 15, 2024

Features

Diabetic Eye Disease: A Comprehensive Look at the Optometrist’s Role

Learn what to pay attention to and when to take charge.

Myopia Management: Putting Theory into Practice

A huge body of literature supports the concept, but many ODs struggle to implement various interventions. Here are lessons learned from the research that can help you.

AMD Staging: More Than Wet Vs. Dry

Various imaging biomarkers can help you get a truer sense of disease status and predict a patient’s risk of progression. Here’s what to look out for.

Are You Up to Speed on Inherited Retinal Dystrophies?

Enhance your patient care with an improved understanding of these genetic disorders and how they present in clinical practice.

Understanding Uveitis: Causes and Clinical Clues

We dive into common and uncommon etiologies for this condition and give advice on how to come up with a proper differential diagnosis for each patient.

Departments

A Close-up on Corneal Transplant Surgeries

In this first installment of a series, we look carefully at the original procedure—PK—with a focus on post-op management.

A Clouded View of Post-op Recovery

A patient with a complex posterior segment history presents with new anterior segment findings. What’s happening and why?

Fade to Black

Be aware of the ups and downs of blood pressure in cataract patients in case this situation occurs.

Heartfelt Insight

Be aware of the cardiopulmonary effects of beta blockers.

It's Time for a Clip Show!

Celebrate our halfway point to 100 published columns with some of the highlights.

Jot It All Down

Looking back at memories of family and patients is priceless.

Make Your Mark

There are several new options to manage retinal disease.

School of Hard Knocks

Optometric education is both growing and stagnating at the same time. New colleges are fine. We need new ideas, too.

Vicarious Liability Leads to Blindness

Yes, you may be responsible for the actions of your employees.

E-Newsletters

Practice Pearls

Expert clinician Paul Karpecki, OD, provides practical insights and management strategies for a wide array of ocular conditions.

OCCRS E-Newsletter

A quarterly e-newsletter by Optometric Cornea, Cataract and Refractive Society (OCCRS) covering the latest information on cornea, cataract and refractive surgery, comanagement and leading technologies.

Optometric Retina Society E-Newsletter

Keep up to date on the latest research and clinical findings in retinal disease care with this quarterly publication from the ORS.

Optometric Physician E-Journal

A weekly e-journal edited by Art Epstein, OD, featuring incisive commentary, timely research summaries and late-breaking news.

Additional Publications

Review of Cornea & Contact Lenses

May/June 2024
Women in Optometry

Women In Optometry continues to be published online, with regular updates on practice design, practice success, news, trends and perspectives. Visit womeninoptometry.com.

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