May 15, 2020

Features

Annual Dry Eye Report

Diet: Why Dry Eye Hangs in the Balance

What we eat—and don’t eat—is impacting our ocular health. Here’s what you need to know.

Don’t Overlook Aqueous-deficient Dry Eye

Familiarize yourself with this subset so that you’re better able to detect and manage it if it does present.

Treat the Front Before the Cut

The surgeon will remove the patient’s cataract, but it’s your job to make sure the eye is healthy enough for surgery, or else to help get it there.

Cataract

Treat the Front Before the Cut

The surgeon will remove the patient’s cataract, but it’s your job to make sure the eye is healthy enough for surgery, or else to help get it there.

Clinical Care

Five Cases You Shouldn't Refer

Don’t be afraid to keep these patients in your practice; you have the skillset and scope of practice to help them.

Glaucoma

Maximizing OCT in the Diagnosis and Management of Glaucoma

This technology has become an integral part of glaucoma care, and optometrists must understand how to accurately use it.

Pharmaceuticals

Statins and the Eye: What You Might Not Know

These lipid-altering drugs are changing lives for the better, but the optometrist is responsible for monitoring their many impacts—good and bad—on ocular health.

Practice Management

20 Tips For Reopening Amid COVID-19

From sanitizing to staffing, here’s advice on how you can hit the ground running and thrive in a world with coronavirus.

A COVID-19 Pandemic Transition In Action

Optometrists at Emory Eye Center are on the frontlines, caring for patients through hospital consults and urgent clinic visits.

Patient Care Morphs Amid COVID-19

From telemed to ER visits, doctors and hospitals are finding creative ways to take care of those in need.

Departments

Chairside

Time is on My Side

If there’s one thing certain about a global pandemic, it is this: Nothing is actually certain, ever.

Clinical Quandaries

Slice of Life

Keep calm when dealing with conjunctival lacerations and be mindful of the extent of the damage.

Coding Connection

Ocular Surface Coding Potpourri

Keep this compendium handy when treating your dry eye patients.

Cornea and Contact Lens Q & A

Patient, Heal Thyself

When contact lens wear leads to limbal stem cell deficiency, you may be able to turn to autologous serum tears for help.

Diagnostic Quiz

A Bumpy Ride

A patient is concerned about a progressive growth.

Outlook

Adapt and Overcome

The work of re-engaging with patients while maintaining healthy boundaries is remaking the optometric practice.

Retina Quiz

Repairing a Misdiagnosis

A patient averts a crisis related to his worsening cloudy vision.

Review of Systems

A Common Denominator

Polycystic ovary syndrome is a hormonal disorder that can have ocular implications.

The Essentials

Track the Hill of Vision

The visual field mean deviation is key when assessing glaucomatous changes.

Therapeutic Review

Managing Neovascular Glaucoma

Following a step-wise approach affords the best outcome.

Through My Eyes

2020: The Year Of COVID-19

We were all so excited about the year of vision—then, in an instant, everything changed.

Urgent Care

Unmask This Cancer Imposter

This suspicious lesion isn’t malignant—but fools most. Here’s how to distinguish it.