Eye injuries few but severe in Paris attacks

PARIS — The victims of the Nov. 13, 2015, terrorist attacks in Paris had few orbital and/or ocular injuries, but the injuries were extremely severe with mostly unfavorable prognoses, Nathalie Butel, MD, said at the meeting of the French Society of Ophthalmology.At 9:20 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., two suicide attacks were carried out at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, and another one followed at 9:50 p.m. At 9:35 p.m., a shooting occurred outside cafes in the 10th arrondissement, followed by another suicide attack. At 9:40 p.m., several hundred hostages (Read more...)

Speaker: Omidria use decreases need for Malyugin ring in cataract surgery

NEW ORLEANS – Malyugin ring use decreased by about two-thirds in one surgeon’s experience when he used Omidria to maintain pupil width in patients undergoing routine cataract surgery.“The stuff works,” Luther L. Fry, MD, said in a presentation at the American Society for Cataract and Refractive Surgery meeting. Fry described himself as a “skeptic” who wanted to test Omidria (1% phenylephrine and 0.3% ketorolac injection, Omeros) for himself.