Cataract Surgery Didactic Course

This course is EBO accredited - click here for more information

Friday 14 February | 14.30 – 17.00

Chairpersons: R. Packard UK, P. Rosen UK, W. Omulecki POLAND, A. Crnej SLOVENIA

Part 1

• 14.30
• T. Kohnen GERMANY               
  Teaching the teachers of cataract surgery
• 14.45
• G. Cleary UK
  Learning how to learn cataract surgery from the resident’s point of view
  
• 15.00
• P. Rosen UK
  THE ERGONOMICS OF CATARACT SURGERY
  - Patient flow
  - Organising the operating room
  - Setting up microscope
  - Draping and anaesthesia
  
• 15.20
• W. Haigis GERMANY
  BIOMETRY
  - Principles
  - Technology
  - Formulae               
  - Post refractive surgery calculations
  
• 15.40
• L. De Benito-Llopis SPAIN
  INCISIONS
  - Temporal vs superior
  - Corneal vs scleral
  - Knife technology
  
• 15.55
• V. Pfeifer SLOVENIA, A. Crnej SLOVENIA
  THE CAPSULE
  - Basic ergonomics
  - Use of needle and forceps
  - Staining
  - Tear out recovery
  - Posterior capsulorhexis
  - Management of PCO including YAG laser surgery
• 16.25
• Z. Biro HUNGARY
  Viscoelastics
  
• 16.45
• P. Rosen UK
  Post-operative ametropia correction: laser refractive surgery
• 17.00
• End of session

Saturday 15 February | 08.00 – 12.30

Chairpersons: R. Packard UK, P. Rosen UK, W. Omulecki POLAND, A. Crnej SLOVENIA

Part 2

• 08.00
• R. Packard UK
  21ST CENTURY PHACO DYNAMICS
  - Physics
  - Pump mechanisms
  - Tip Technology
  - Power and delivery             
• 08.30
• B. Malyugin RUSSIA , W. Omulecki POLAND, R. Packard UK,
  V. Pfeifer SLOVENIA, P. Rosen UK, P. Stodulka CZECH REPUBLIC,
  I. Dekaris CROATIA
  COMPLICATIONS AND COMPLEX CASES: ADVANCED PHACO TECHNIQUES
  - Soft, medium, hard cataracts
  - Phaco chop
  - BMICS vs CMICS
  - Small pupils and IFIS (B. Malyugin)
  - Short vs long eyes (B. Malyugin)
  - Subluxed crystalline and pseudophakic lenses (B. Malyugin)
  - Vitreous loss
  - Dropped nucleus               
  - Intraocular lenses with no capsule (P. Stodulka)
  
• 10.15
• Break
  
• 10.30
• Z. Nagy HUNGARY
  FEMTOSECOND LASERS AND CATARACT SURGERY
  - How does it work
  - What will it do
  - Results
  - Use in complex cases
  
• 10.50
• G. Cleary UK
  INTRAOCULAR LENS DESIGN
  - Optic design
  - Haptic design
  - Asphericity
  - Materials
  - Biocompatibility
  - New designs
  
• 11.10
• O. Findl AUSTRIA
  PRESBYOPIA CORRECTION WITH INTRAOCULAR LENSES
  - Monovision
  - Bifocal
  - Multifocal 
  - Accommodating IOLs
  
• 11.30
• B. Frueh SWITZERLAND
  TORIC INTRAOCULAR LENSES AND LIMBAL RELAXING INCISIONS
  - Indications
  - Pre-op assessment
  - Intraoperative techniques
  - Post-op refinement               
  - Use of intraoperative imaging devices
  
• 11.50
• M. Amon AUSTRIA
  Supplementary lenses
  
• 12.05
• Discussion
  
• 12.30
• End of session