New scleral lens academy to aid specialised fitting
WA optometrist Damon Ezekiel has co-founded a new organisation to promote scleral lenses and aid optometrists with their fitting.
Tagged as: Contact lenses, Patient management
Contact lens resource guide free for members
Optometry Australia has produced a comprehensive clinical resource guide on contact lenses for members to keep and use in their every-day practice.
Tagged as: Clinical practice guides, Contact lenses, Eye examinations, Member services, Myopia, Patient management, Practice notes
Optometrists urged to write ‘Must be compounded’ on Atropine scripts to avoid dispensing errors
Optometrists who prescribe eye-drops for myopia have been urged to clearly label the script ‘MUST BE COMPOUNDED’ following incidents of Australian children receiving the wrong eye-drops from pharmacists.
Tagged as: Myopia, Paediatric optometry, Therapeutics
MBS Review Taskforce recommends assessment of intravitreal injections by optometrists
Moves to consider intravitreal injections by optometrists have progressed with the MBS Review Taskforce recommending an assessment of facilitating provision of injections by optometrists and nurses.
Tagged as: Advocacy & government, Eye examinations, Leadership, Medicare-MBS-PBS
Eye scanner to potentially diagnose autism being trialled
A discovery by Adelaide optometrist Dr Paul Constable might soon help optometrists potentially diagnose autism.
Tagged as: Future, Paediatric optometry, Patient management, Practice equipment, Scope of practice, Universities
Phantom foreign bodies often from blepharitis, or neck problems, TLC to hear
Blepharitis and neck problems are common causes of phantom foreign bodies in the eye, TLC will hear.
Tagged as: Other eye diseases, Patient management, TLC
Dean’s upskilling health workers to take diabetic eye photos
Optometrist Dean Milner has been training remote area primary health care workers to use retinal cameras in patients with diabetes.
Tagged as: Diabetes, Indigenous eye health, Practice equipment, Remote & rural optometry
NQV and TLC to hear latest myopia contact lens results
Latest data from CooperVision’s myopia control contact lens study will be presented at two Australian optometry conferences.
Tagged as: Contact lenses, Paediatric optometry, Patient management
Indigenous eye exams on the rise
Indigenous eye examinations are rising but there is still a way to go to close the gap for vision.
Tagged as: Diabetes, Indigenous eye health, Patient management, Remote & rural optometry
New macular disease trials currently recruiting
Australian patients with diabetic macular oedema (DMO) or wet age-related macular degeneration (wet-AMD) are needed to take part in two Roche sponsored trials.
Tagged as: Other eye diseases