Dr. Darius Moshfeghi shares his key take-aways from the two retina subspecialty day sessions at this year’s AAO meeting in New Orleans. Interviewed by Dr. John Kitchens, Associate Retina Editor for OphthalmologyWeb, the two have a lively discussion ab…
Douglas Katsev MD, Reviews the Cataract and Refractive Sessions at AAO
Dr. Douglas Katsev discusses what he gained from this year’s AAO meeting with John Kitchens, MD, associate retina editor – OphthalmologyWeb. Dr. Katsev describes the use of multifocal lenses, ReZoom and Crystalens and ICL’s in his own practice. He sha…
The Spec-Tac Disposable Lid Speculum Launched at AAO 2007
Barry Shafer, President of EnvisionEyes, discusses the creation of the Spec-Tac disposable eyelid speculum with Ryan Alfonso, MPH, managing editor of OphthalmologyWeb. This device prevents lids and lashes from interfering with a broad array of eye ima…
Peribulbar Anesthesia for Vitreoretinal Surgery
Peribulbar Anesthesia has been described for cataract surgery, glaucoma surgery, and vitreoretinal surgery. It has distinct advantages over traditional retrobulbar anesthesia. These advantages include: decreased risk of retrobulbar hemorrhage and globe…
Launch of the EnvisionEyes Spec-Tac at the 2007 AAO Meeting
John Stephenson, President of EnvisionEyes, discusses the creation of the Spec-Tac disposable eyelid speculum with Ryan Alfonso, MPH, managing editor of OphthalmologyWeb. With Spec-Tac, lids and lashes are prevented from impeding visualization of ocul…
Refractive Lens Exchange using Crystalens IOL
Uday Devgan, MD, FACS demonstrates crystalens insertion.