Cataract Surgery Didactic Course

This course is EBO accredited - click here for more information

Friday 10 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
• W. Haigis GERMANY Biometry - precision IOL calculations
  - Principles
  - Technology
  - Formulae and pattern recognition calculators
  - Hill-RBF calculator
  - The importance of the ocular surface
  - Post refractive surgery calculations
• 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
  - Posterior capsulorhexis
  - Management of PCO including YAG laser surgery
• 16.05
• O. Muftuoglu TURKEY Incisions: creating the perfect wound
  - Temporal vs superior
  - Corneal vs scleral
  - Knife technology
• 16.25
• J. Vryghem BELGIUM Viscoelastics: creating space - protecting tissue
• 16.45
• A. Kilic TURKEY Postoperative ametropia correction: laser refractive surgery
• 17.00
• End of session

Saturday 11 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. Packard UKManaging the nucleus
  -Divide and conquer
  -White/hard cataracts
• 08.50
• B. Malyugin RUSSIA, R. Packard UK, P. Rosen UK,
  I. Dekaris CROATIA Complications and complex cases: advanced phaco techniques
  - Small pupils and IFIS
  - Short vs long eyes
  - Subluxed crystalline and pseudophakic lenses
  - Vitreous loss/PC tear
  - Dropped nucleus
  - Intraocular lenses with no capsule (ID)
• 10.00
• Break
• 10.20
• Z. Nagy HUNGARY Femtosecond lasers and cataract surgery
  - How does it work
  - What will it do
  - Results
• 10.40
• F. Hengerer GERMANY Femto phaco for complex cases
• 11.00
• O. Findl AUSTRIA Presbyopia correction with intraocular lenses
  - Monovision
  - Bifocal
  - Multifocal
• 11.20
• D. Spalton UK Intraocular lens design
  - Optic design
  - Haptic design
  - Asphericity
  - Materials
  - Biocompatibility
  - New designs
• 11.40
• B. Frueh SWITZERLAND Intraoperative correction of astigmatism: toric intraocular lenses
  - Indications
  - Preoperative assessment
  - Use of intraoperative imaging devices
  - Postoperative fine tuning
• 11.55
• P. Stodulka CZECH REPUBLIC Introperative correction of astigmatism: laser and knife incisions
• 12.10
• G. Kahraman AUSTRIA Supplementary lenses
• 12.20
• Wrap-up
• 12.30
• End of session