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Oertli Instrumente AG wins the Swiss Medtech Award

12 June 2024 | Awards, Conferences & Anniversaries, Company Profiles
Oertli Instrumente AG has been honored with the prestigious Swiss Medtech Award, worth CHF 75,000 at the Swiss Medtech Day.

Survey of current undergraduate ophthalmology teaching in the United Kingdom

1 October 2019 |
Is there a crisis in ophthalmic education? The British Undergraduate Ophthalmology Society surveyed medical students and junior doctors to evaluate current ophthalmology teaching across medical schools in the UK. British medicals schools are currently not obligated to include ophthalmology within...

From novice to overnight on-calls: developing an ophthalmology bootcamp to ease the learning curve for new trainees

4 December 2023 | | Ophthalmology
Introduction My first ophthalmology on-call was nine years ago and it was a fairly traumatic experience. I was an FY2 in a Welsh district general hospital and I was on my own – at least, that’s how it felt to...

Bandage contact lens cultures after corneal collagen cross-linking

1 August 2016 | | Cornea / External Eye Disease | Bacterial contamination, contact lens, corneal collagen cross-linking, keratoconus, photorefractive keratotomy
Corneal collagen cross-linking (CCL) is a treatment modality that has been shown to stop the progression of keratoconus. There have also been reports that CCL acts as an antimicrobiologic agent in treating resistant microbial keratitis. This study aimed to investigate...

Headache: the clue is in the eyes

1 October 2021 | | Ophthalmology, Neuro-Ophthalmology, Imaging
A worrying cause of headache is raised intracranial pressure (ICP). Papilloedema is a vital clue for accurate diagnosis and performing fundoscopy is essential in detecting this sign. The authors review the use of fundoscopy in their own district general hospital....

A single intravitreal bevacizumab in the treatment of breast carcinoma related choroidal metastasis

1 June 2015 | | AMD, Cataract and Refractive, Cornea / External Eye Disease, Emergency Ophthalmology, Genetics, Glaucoma, Imaging, Neuro-Ophthalmology, Ocular Pathology and Oncology, Oculoplastics, Ophthalmology, Optometry, Orbit, Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus, Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
Case report Choroidal metastasis represents a common form of intraocular malignancies occurring in up to 10% of patients with systemic metastasis [1]. The most common primary sites of ocular metastasis are breast carcinoma in women and lung carcinoma in men,...

The last three patients: general medicine (Patient Two)

5 June 2023 | | Ophthalmology
For the second reflection in this series (see Patient One here), Professor Jonathan Rees recounts his experiences of the last patient he saw as a medical registrar, telling the tragic story of a young man’s death and the risks that...

Understanding spaceflight-associated neuro-ocular syndrome (SANS): what do we know?

2 August 2022 | | Ophthalmology, Oculoplastics
Introduction Formerly known as visual impairment and intracranial pressure syndrome (VIIP), space-related neuro-ocular syndrome (SANS) is defined by a collection of ophthalmic and neurological findings in astronauts after long-term spaceflight [1]. Changes in the eyeball, such as hyperopic shift, during...

A pituitary tumour from 1927

1 April 2019 | | Ophthalmology, Neuro-Ophthalmology
The author shares a clinical case from Edinburgh Royal Infirmary’s archives. It is not often in the course of a clinical career that one gets the opportunity to review a patient who had been treated by a pioneer neurosurgeon some...

The most frequent complaints and claims in ophthalmology – a Medical Protection Society (MPS) analysis

4 December 2018 | | Optometry, Cataract and Refractive, Glaucoma
The authors look at the reasons behind medico-legal cases reported to MPS and share key learning points. Complications following ophthalmology surgery are rare, however, medico-legal cases are not uncommon due to the significant impact they can have on patients’ lifestyles....

The Preston Rule

27 July 2021 | | Ophthalmology, Optometry, ONLINE EXCLUSIVE ARTICLES
The selection, specification and fitting of a spectacle frame necessitates the recording of certain measurements particular to the frame. These measurements are also essential when it is required to manufacture a handmade spectacle frame. Instruments designed to accomplish this task...

The results of the last survey Dec23

4 December 2023 | | Ophthalmology
*Please be aware that this data does not form part of a peer reviewed research study. The information therein should not be relied upon for clinical purposes but instead used as a guide for clinical practice and reflection. Hopefully by...