April 15, 2022

Features

Cornea

Clinical Pearls in Corneal Foreign Body Removal

How to properly identify, treat and manage patients with this ocular trauma.

Fine-Tune Your Corneal Disease Diagnostic Skills

Take these quizzes to see where your knowledge of these conditions ranks.

Improving the Gold Standard For CXL

Here’s a look at what’s currently available, what’s in the works and what’s on the horizon.

Piecing Together the HSVK Puzzle

Given the seriousness of this condition, proper differential diagnosis and medical management is key.

Low Vision

Brush Up on Your Low Vision Skills

You can make rehabilitation a priority in your practice with fewer hassles than you may think.

Vision Therapy

To Cut or Not To Cut? Weighing Strabismus Surgery Referral

Determine when this intervention is truly better than vision therapy—and how to set expectations.

Departments

Chairside

Can You Handle the Truth?

Recognize what’s real—and what’s not.

Clinical Quandaries

Assuming the Worst

Careful observation and history taking is paramount when evaluating a swollen eyelid.

Cornea and Contact Lens Q & A

Out for Blood

This dry eye treatment may not be first on your list, but it’s worth taking into consideration.

Diagnostic Quiz

What’s Your Angle?

A patient comes in with IOP of 65mm Hg and 20/400 vision. How do you arrive at a diagnosis and address her urgent needs?

Focus on Refraction

Three Sides to Every Survey

This patient history tool is simple to implement yet significant for outcomes.

Glaucoma Grand Rounds

A Tale of Two Patients

One had more structural damage, the other had more progression. Here’s how to proceed in both cases of glaucoma.

Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

Feedback and ideas from the optometric community.

Outlook

Upstairs, Downstairs

The medical/optical dichotomy of optometry was on display once again at Vision Expo East.

Retina Quiz

Visually Handicapped

This patient’s medical history and genetics played a key role in finding the correct diagnosis.

Surgical Minute

Ring Me Up

The IC-8 IOL creates a permanent pinhole effect, improving the prospects for a monovision approach.

Therapeutic Review

Herpes Hurts

Temporal pain often portends this condition, so learn how to best manage it.

Through My Eyes

Cornea Cornerstone

How to properly manage this important part of optometric care.