Southern Ophthalmology's "Spring Has Sprung" Symposium 2023
Date: 9/09/2023 (AEST)
Venue: 7A, 2 Huntley St, Alexandria, NSW, 2015
Provider: Southern Ophthalmology
Contact: Annie Le, [E] anniele@suresight.com.au, [P] (02)95878585
Learning Objectives
- Develop an approach to the red eye.
- Identify common ocular emergencies presenting as a red eye.
- Revision of treatment of common red eye presentations, and an understanding of conditions that require urgent intervention.
- Diagnose SIRE, PAMM, Inner retinal hyperreflectivity, Retinal cavitations and Early retinal neovascularisation.
- Identify potential causes for Macular pathology in children.
- Learn an approach to manage visual loss in children with no apparent cause.
- Identify common congenital ocular disorders and their ocular and systemic implications.
- Understand contraindications to presbyopia correcting lenses.
- Understand patients requirements in 2023 and the link between spectacle independence and wellbeing.
- Review different technologies available for presbyopia correction.
- Recognise symptoms of wet AMD.
- Identify signs of wet AMD.
- Recognise other conditions that may mimic wet AMD.
- Be familiar with newly introduced therapy for wet AMD.
- Be familiar with emerging therapy for geographic atrophy.
- Be aware of OCT changes which predict geographic atrophy.
- Be able to more readily differentiate between dermatochalasis and ptosis.
- Practical management of epiphora.
- Have a better understanding of the ocular plastic causes of ocular irritation.
Max CPD hours awarded: 4
Session Information
| Name |
|---|
| The red eye, when to worry and when not? |
| Clinical? |
| Yes |
| Interactive? |
| No |
| Therapeutic? |
| Yes |
| Duration of CPD Session/Module |
| 0.5 |
| Duration of CPD Session/Module inclusive of Assessment Component |
| 0.75 |
| Name |
|---|
| Case studies of retinal conditions and AMD update |
| Clinical? |
| Yes |
| Interactive? |
| No |
| Therapeutic? |
| No |
| Duration of CPD Session/Module |
| 1 |
| Duration of CPD Session/Module inclusive of Assessment Component |
| 1 |
| Name |
|---|
| Interactive paediatric and strabismus cases |
| Clinical? |
| Yes |
| Interactive? |
| Yes |
| Therapeutic? |
| No |
| Duration of CPD Session/Module |
| 0.5 |
| Duration of CPD Session/Module inclusive of Assessment Component |
| 0.75 |
| Name |
|---|
| Patient selection is your protection - equipping yourself for the trend towards presbyopia correction |
| Clinical? |
| Yes |
| Interactive? |
| No |
| Therapeutic? |
| No |
| Duration of CPD Session/Module |
| 0.5 |
| Duration of CPD Session/Module inclusive of Assessment Component |
| 0.75 |
| Name |
|---|
| Quality of life changing ocular plastic diagnoses |
| Clinical? |
| Yes |
| Interactive? |
| No |
| Therapeutic? |
| No |
| Duration of CPD Session/Module |
| 0.5 |
| Duration of CPD Session/Module inclusive of Assessment Component |
| 0.75 |