Sherlook Holmes and The Eyes of Terror

Sherlook Holmes and The Eyes of Terror

Date: 10/06/2022 (AEDT)

Venue: Strangers' Room 6 Macquarie Street, NSW, 2000

Provider: Sydney Retina Clinic & Day Surgery

Contact: Andrew Chang, [E] thong@sydneyretina.com.au, [P] 02 9221 3755

Learning Objectives

• Identify common sight threatening and non-sight threatening causes of vitreous haemorrhage.
• Recognise important symptoms and signs in patients presenting with a vitreous haemorrhage requiring urgent treatment.
• Understand medical and surgical management of patients presenting with a vitreous haemorrhage.
• Evaluate the various causes of angle closure glaucoma.
• Discuss the presentation, signs, diagnostics, management and pathophysiological mechanisms of primary angle closure glaucoma.
• Discuss the presentation, signs, diagnostics, management and pathophysiological mechanisms of plateau iris
• Discuss the presentation, signs, diagnostics, management and pathophysiological mechanisms of hypotony with choroidal effusions
• Discuss the presentation, signs, diagnostics, management and pathophysiological mechanisms of aqueous misdirection
• Discuss the presentation, signs, diagnostics, management and pathophysiological mechanisms of neovascular angle closure
• Discuss the presentation, signs, diagnostics, management and pathophysiological mechanisms of suprachoroidal haemorrhage.
• Identify common causes of vision loss in diabetes.
• Understand referral guidelines for non-centre involving and centre involving diabetic macular oedema.
• Recognise features of proliferative diabetic retinopathy including mild NPDR, moderate NPDR and severe NPDR.
• Understand review interval and referral for different grades of retinopathy.
• Understand pattern of refractive change after glycaemic control.
• Identify and understand clinical features of diabetic papillopathy and anterior ischaemic optic neuropathy.
• Understand the diagnosis and management of diabetic keratopathy.
• Diagnose and identify features of ocular ischaemic syndrome and ocular emboli.
• Be aware of the signs and symptoms of uveitis.
• Understand which other tests may be required for diagnosing uveitis.
• Identify clinical symptoms and signs of central serous retinopathy
• Identify differential diagnoses of central serous retinopathy
• Identify investigations to help in the diagnosis of central serous retinopathy
• Identify current management of central serous retinopathy
• Understand the role of OCT in macular ischaemia and the factors related to progression.
• Recognise different types of retinal detachments
• Understand the treatments of retinal detachments
• Understand the prognosis of different types of retinal detachments

Max CPD hours awarded: 3

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