The Modern Cataract Patient: Practical Assessment, Clinical Decision-Making and Surgical Management
Date: 18/08/2026 (AEST)
Venue: Bayside Eye Specialists, 323 Nepean Highway, Brighton East, 3187, VIC, 3187
Provider: Bayside Eye Specialists
Contact: Lara Sullivan, [E] lara@baysideeyes.com.au, [P] 0438544799
Activity Outline
The Modern Cataract Patient: Practical Assessment, Clinical Decision-Making and Surgical Management
Join us for an interactive, case-based evening that will enhance your confidence in assessing and referring cataract patients. Explore complex cases, systemic considerations and anaesthetic options, with practical take-home tips you can apply in everyday practice.
Cataract Surgery in Complex Eyes - Dr Laurence Sullivan
Seeing the Bigger Picture: Systemic Diseases in Cataract - Dr Lukas Sahhar
Cataract Surgery: Focus on Local Anaesthesia - Dr Georgia Cleary
Learning Objectives
- Identify high-risk corneal conditions
- Understand biometry limitations
- Apply appropriate pre-referral protocols
- Recognise pseudoexfoliation and its surgical implications
- Understand MIGS candidacy and post-operative co-management
- Identify atypical cataract morphologies
- Correlate presentations with underlying systemic conditions
- Recognise lens changes associated with medications
- Implement co-management with ophthalmologists and GPs
- Understand the orbital anatomy relevant to local anaesthesia for cataract surgery
- List the main forms of local anaesthesia utilised in contemporary cataract surgery
- Be aware of the normal range of clinical appearances of eyes after sharp needle and subtenon blocks
- Have an awareness of serious sight threatening complications from local anaesthesia
- Be aware of red flag clinical findings day one post cataract surgery, especially in the context of optometric co-management
Max CPD hours awarded: 2.75
Session Information
| Name |
|---|
| Cataract Surgery in Complex Eyes |
| Clinical? |
| Yes |
| Interactive? |
| Yes |
| Therapeutic? |
| Yes |
| Duration of CPD Session/Module |
| 0.5 |
| Duration of CPD Session/Module inclusive of Assessment Component |
| 1 |
| Name |
|---|
| Seeing the Bigger Picture - Systemic Diseases in Cataract |
| Clinical? |
| Yes |
| Interactive? |
| Yes |
| Therapeutic? |
| Yes |
| Duration of CPD Session/Module |
| 0.5 |
| Duration of CPD Session/Module inclusive of Assessment Component |
| 0.75 |
| Name |
|---|
| Cataract Surgery - Focus on Local Anaesthesia |
| Clinical? |
| Yes |
| Interactive? |
| Yes |
| Therapeutic? |
| Yes |
| Duration of CPD Session/Module |
| 0.5 |
| Duration of CPD Session/Module inclusive of Assessment Component |
| 1 |