Refractive Surgery Didactic Course

This course is EBO accredited - click here for more information

Part 1

Friday 14 February | 14.45 – 17.00

Moderators:  R. Bellucci ITALY, D. Epstein SWITZERLAND

• 14.45
• D. Siganos GREECE
  Patient selection and preoperative preparation
• 15.00
• G. Kymionis GREECE
  Lasers in refractive surgery 
  
• 15.15
• C. Roberts USA
  Corneal topography and IOL power calculation
  
• 15.40
• R. Bellucci ITALY
  LASIK: surgical technique
  
• 16.00
• T. Seiler SWITZERLAND
  Surface Ablation Techniques (SATs): surgical technique
  
• 16.20
• D. Epstein SWITZERLAND               
  Results of corneal refractive surgery
• 16.40
• Case report and discussion
• 17.00
• End of session

Part 2

Saturday 15 February | 08.00 – 12.35

Moderators: G. Grabner AUSTRIA, C. Roberts USA

• 08.00
• T. Kohnen GERMANY
  Incisional and coagulative corneal procedures: principles, technique and results
• 08.10
• J. Krumeich GERMANY
  Overview of microkeratomes
  
• 08.30
• D. Touboul FRANCE
  Intrastromal corneal implants
  
• 08.40
• D. Epstein SWITZERLAND
  Refractive lens exchange
  
• 09.00
• A. Marinho PORTUGAL
  Overview of phakic IOLs
  
• 09.20
• O. Findl AUSTRIA                 
  Multifocal IOLs
• 09.30
• G. Grabner AUSTRIA
  Presbyopia
• 09.50
• R. Applegate USA
  Quality of vision evaluation
• 10.10
• C. Roberts USA          
  Biomechanics of the cornea
• 10.30
• J. Güell SPAIN
  Refractive reoperations and enhancements
• 10.50
• V. Katsanevaki GREECE
  Non-optical complications of LASIK and corneal surgery
• 11.15
• BREAK

Moderators: V. Katsanevaki GREECE, T. Kohnen GERMANY

• 11.20
• V. Katsanevaki GREECE
  Optical complications of refractive surgery
• 11.35
• R. Nuijts THE NETHERLANDS
  Complications of phakic IOLs
  
• 11.55
• L. De Benito-Llopis SPAIN
  Customised ablational procedures
• 12.10
• Case report and discussion
  
• 12.35
• End of Session