Playing with Fire: OCT-A Coding
As organized optometry continues to fight for scope of practice expansion, clinicians must arm themselves with the knowledge necessary to incorporate the new care regimens into their practices. More advanced surgical procedures such as laser trabeculoplasty, for example, call for not just new tools, but also the know-how to code for them properly.
True Colors
Color vision testing is a staple to screen for congenital color vision defects; it’s also helpful to detect or monitor disease progression in patients with various neuro-ophthalmic conditions. Often, a color vision test can be a cost-effective and readily accessible technique to identify and monitor certain ocular diseases and enable earlier intervention.
Mission: Uncorrectable
Q: I have a one-month post-op cataract patient who told me on two successive visits that something was wrong with the vision in the right eye. The anterior segment was normal, and best-corrected acuity 20/25+1. What’s next?
Wellness Essentials For Clinical Practice
Supported by an unrestricted grant from Bausch + Lomb.
This supplement, created in partnership with the Ocular Wellness and Nutrition Society (OWNS), gives practicing optometrists a much-needed overview of how nutrition, dietary supplementation and systemic health affect patients' eyes and bodies. Contributors are an esteemed group of ODs, MDs and PhDs who have researched these issues at length. Here, they share their insights on how optometry patients can benefit from greater attention to nutrition and systemic wellness initiatives.
Narrow Focus, Wide Impact
Adding a specialty to your practice helps you do more for patients in need while standing out in the community. The fastest growing one in optometry is dry eye, but ODs are also turning their attention to specialty contact lenses, vision therapy, low vision and myriad other niches. Here’s what these opportunities can do for you.
The News Feed
Toric Lenses Work Almost All the Time
Sleep Apnea Associated with Optic Neuropathy
Visual Disability: A Matter of the Heart
Maculogix Launches ‘AMD Academy’
Full-field Prisms Don’t Make the Cut
Tele-rehab Could Boost Low Vision Services
The Sooner the Better for CMV Retinitis
Get the Edge on In-office Dispensing
Orthokeratology a Boon for Quality of Life
Visual Field Defects Amenable to Peripheral Prism
Wearable Devices May Restore Some Functional Loss
OCT-A Comes to Spectralis
Axial Length Growth Correlates With Topographic Changes
Doing A-OK After One Year of Overnight Wear
New Questionnaire Aims to Boost QoL Measures for Ortho-K
New BAK-free Latanoprost Approved
Good Visual Outcomes Post-keratoplasty in Kids
Repeat PK Proves Safe and Effective Long-term
Research Supports Physical Therapy for Bell’s Palsy
Anti-VEGF Beats PDT for Choroidal Vasculopathy
Hematological Patients’ Meibomian Glands Likely Damaged
Natural Compound Halts Uveal Melanoma Growth
Another Step Forward in Dry Eye Diagnosis and Management
Disparities Exist in Low Vision Services
Study: Vision Rehab Can Reverse Some Field Loss
Frequency of Stroke and Cardiac Disease High in CRAO Patients
Meds, Surgery Work for Children with Uveitis and Elevated IOP
One More Reason to Avoid Eye Rubbing
Lensectomy May Reduce Schlemm’s Canal in Kids
ROCK Inhibitors May Boost Anti-VEGF Efficacy
Want to Stop Myopia? Go Fly a Kite
Abnormal Cerebral Perfusions Linked to POAG Progress
Imaging Tech Reveals Early Fuchs’ Dystrophy
Subfoveal Choroid May Determine AMD Treatment Course
Macular Thickness Tied to Diabetic Retinopathy in Children
PCR the Gold Standard for Herpes Simplex Virus Detection
Surgery Not a Factor for Kids with Albinism
Elderly, Males Hit Harder by Glaucoma
Immune Inhibitors May Help Conjunctival Melanoma
Study: Timing is Everything for Congenital Duct Obstruction
Glaucoma Therapies By the Numbers
Maculopathy Underdiagnosed in Some Patients
Study: Strabismus Interferes with Development
Think Femtosecond Laser for Astigmatism
Acupuncture Misses the Mark for POAG Patients
OCT Matches or Beats FA
Low-Power Trifocal IOLs Fall Short
Breakthroughs in Material Science Could Lead to Eye Augmentation
Researchers Call For Standard Convergence Insufficiency Testing
Toric Lenses: More Fits, Fewer Compromises
Look Inside The Current Issue
Features
How Drug Abuse Affects the Eye
Master Pediatric Spectacle Wear Challenges
OCT-A for AMD, Diabetes and Beyond
Reality Check: Protecting Ocular Health from Headset Hazards
Retool Your Office Tech to Boost Efficiency
Why Refer When You Can Retain?
Departments
Led Astray
Letters to the Editor
Manic (Foveal) Depression
Mission: Uncorrectable
Narrow Focus, Wide Impact
No More Fun and Games
That’s a Foul
The Day I Became My Own Patient
The Many Hats of Herpes
There’s a Killer on the Loose
Third Time’s the Charm?
Continuing Education
Slaying the Giant Cell Arteritis
Scleral Lenses Boom, Don't Bust
Glaucoma: Lifestyles of the Antioxidant Rich and Famous
Improving the Identification and Care of Patients With Diabetic Retinopathy
Additional Publications
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Wellness Essentials For Clinical Practice
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Natural Eyecare: A New Category in Patient Care
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Jobs
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Review of Cornea & Contact Lenses
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Corneal Ulcers: Sterile But Not Benign
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Your Corneal Infection Care Questions—Answered
Microbial keratitis is a well-known condition that has the potential to cause visual impairment and blindness. However, treating corneal infections is fraught with challenges and uncertainties that can make a clinician hesitant to move forward with any one management plan, even when confident of the diagnosis. This article addresses several of these roadblocks to help you treat microbial keratitis patients promptly and correctly. -
Climb on the Health Bandwagon
Despite these perceived drawbacks, GP lenses are still highly regarded for their ocular health profile. -
Take the Anxiety out of Specialty Lens Fittings
This article walks through five key steps clinicians should take to successfully complete a specialty contact lens fitting and explains how several newer diagnostic instruments can be clinically helpful for novices and veterans alike.
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Conjunctivitis: Making the Call
Here, we take a look at what we know—and what remains to be resolved—about conjunctivitis and how best to distinguish between the condition’s various forms.
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Fighting Corneal Infections With CXL: A New Ally?
On paper, corneal collagen crosslinking (CXL) for microbial keratitis, a treatment known as photo-activated chromophore for infectious keratitis (PACK-CXL), checks all of these boxes. In application, PACK-CXL, vaguely recognized by optometry as a treatment option for infectious keratitis, has several limitations that stymie its widespread use.
Women in Optometry
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POP-UP POLL: Giving Back
Optometry is, by its nature, a giving profession—but many optometry practices go above and beyond.
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Recovery Mode
When disaster strikes, it can leave the most prepared business owner feeling vulnerable and worried about his or her business, employees and patients.
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Women In Optometry Launches WO Voices, a Podcast Series
Women In Optometry magazine is continuing its expansion as a multichannel communication platform with the launch of WO Voices, a podcast series.
