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If you are like the typical ophthalmologist reading this, you’ll see 100 to 200 patients in clinic this week. Unless you’re in an obscure subspecialty niche, or very old-school, chances are you could delegate about a third or more of those patients to an optometrist working on your staff. Yet fewer than half of the new client practices I serve employ optometrists — although this is up sharply from several years ago when only the busiest, vanguard surgeons were willing to work alongside ODs. If your practice has more patients (Read more...)

The Allergy & Asthma Network announced that its Anaphylaxis Community Expert volunteer program has joined with the American Latex Allergy Association to increase awareness of life-threatening latex allergies, according to a press release.“This partnership is a natural alliance, blending the necessary information on latex allergy in the context of identifying and managing anaphylaxis,” Michael Zacharisen, MD, allergist, ACE (Anaphylaxis Community Expert) volunteer and ALAA (American Latex Allergy Association) board member from Bozeman, Mont., said in the release. “I’m confident the awareness raised will benefit the public and medical community alike.”

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A new-generation IOL yielded satisfactory near, intermediate and distance visual acuity with high stability, according to study findings.The prospective study included 50 eyes of 25 patients. All patients underwent phacoemulsification with bilateral im…

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A personalized protocol with a shorter duration of posturing after vitrectomy yielded a high rate of macular hole closure, especially in pseudophakic eyes, according to study findings.“The overall success rate of macular hole closure with pro re nata posturing was comparable with that of the traditional 7 days of prone positioning. This suggests that immediate posturing after surgery is not required, and posturing may be imposed when needed as determined by the [spectral-domain optical coherence tomography] images,” the authors wrote.

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