Cataract Surgery Didactic Course

This course is EBO accredited - click here for more information

Friday 9 February | 14.30 – 17.00

Chairpersons: R. Packard UK, P. Rosen UK

Part 1: In the Beginning……… 

• 14.30
• V. Pfeifer SLOVENIA The pilot and the cataract surgeon: minimising risk and avoiding complications
• 14.45
• L. Benjamin UK Surgical simulation
• 15.00
• A. Prinz AUSTRIA What do I want from my trainer?
• 15.15
• P. Rosen UK The ergonomics of cataract surgery
  - Patient flow
  - Organising the operating room
  - Setting up the microscope
  - Draping and anaesthesia
• 15.30
• J. Vryghem BELGIUM Viscoelastics: creating space - protecting tissue
• 15.50
• A. Crnej SLOVENIA, V. Pfeifer SLOVENIAThe Capsule
  - Basic ergonomics
  - Use of needle and forceps
  - Staining
  - Tear out recovery
  - Newer methods of creating a capsulotomy: Zepto and CapsuLaser
  - Posterior capsulorhexis
  - Management of PCO including YAG laser surgery
• 16.10
• O. Muftuoglu TURKEY Incisions: Creating the Perfect Wound and Correcting Astigmatism
  - Temporal vs superior
  - Corneal vs scleral
  - LRI and AKs
  - Knife technology
• 16.25
• L. Gobin FRANCE Biometry - precision IOL calculations
  - Principles
  - Technology
  - Formulae and pattern recognition calculators
  - Hill-RBF calculator
  - The importance of the ocular surface
  - Post refractive surgery calculations
• 16.45
• P. Rosen UK Postoperative ametropia correction: corneal laser refractive surgery
• 17.00
• End of session

Saturday 10 February | 08.00 – 12.30

Chairpersons:  R. Packard UK, P. Rosen UK

Part 2: Next Steps…… 

• 08.00
• R. Packard UK New age phaco dynamics
  - Physics
  - Pump mechanisms
  - Tip technology
  - Power and delivery
• 08.30
• R. Nuijts THE NETHERLANDS, R. Packard UKManaging the nucleus
  -Divide and conquer
  -White/hard cataracts
• 08.50
• B. Malyugin RUSSIA, R. Packard UK, P. Rosen UK,
  G. Scharioth GERMANY, I. Dekaris CROATIA Complications and complex cases: advanced phaco techniques
  - Small pupils and IFIS
  - Negative dysphotopsia
  - Subluxated crystalline lenses
  - Vitreous loss/PC tear/dropped nucleus
  - Intraoperative zonular crisis
  - Intraocular lenses with no capsule
  - Cataract surgery combined with DSEK/DMEK
  - Cataract surgery after DSEK/PKP
• 10.20
• Break
• 10.30
• Z. Nagy HUNGARY Femtosecond lasers and cataract surgery
  - How does it work
  - What will it do
  - Results
  - Femto phaco for complex cases
• 11.10
• D. Spalton UK Intraocular lens design
  - Optic design
  - Haptic design
  - Asphericity
  - Materials
  - Biocompatibility
  - New designs
• 11.30
• O. Findl AUSTRIA Presbyopia correction with intraocular lenses
  - Monovision
  - Bifocal
  - Multifocal
• 11.45
• B. Frueh SWITZERLAND Intraoperative correction of astigmatism: toric intraocular lenses
  - Indications
  - Preoperative assessment
  - Use of intraoperative imaging devices
  - Postoperative fine tuning
• 12.00
• P. Artal SPAIN IOLs for cataract patients with AMD
  - Telescopes
  - Prismatic lenses
  - Indications
  - Results
  - What to tell the patients: counselling
• 12.15
• M. Amon AUSTRIA Supplementary IOLs: Reversible and Adjustable Solutions
  - Options
  - Indications
  - IOL power calculations
• 12.30
• End of session