Cataract Surgery Didactic Course

This course is EBO accredited - click here for more information

Friday 15 February | 14.30 – 17.00

Chairpersons: R. Packard UK, P. Rosen UK

In the Beginning: Learning to Learn…. 

• 14.30
• TBC At the start: surgical simulation
• 14.45
• A. Prinz AUSTRIA What do I want from my trainer?
• 15.00
• Efficient Cataract Surgery P. Rosen UK - Preoperative assessment
  - Patient flow
  - Organising the operating room
  - Setting up the microscope
• 15.15
• Biometry: Precision in IOL CalculationsD. Sculfor UK - Principles
  - Technology
  - Formulae and pattern recognition calculators
  - Hill-RBF calculator
  - The importance of the ocular surface
  - Post refractive surgery calculations
• 15.40
• Incisions: Creating the Perfect WoundO. Muftuoglu TURKEY - Temporal vs superior
  - Corneal vs scleral
  - LRI and AKs for astigmatism
  - Knife technology
• 15.55
• Visco-elastics: Creating space - Protecting TissueV. Katsanevaki GREECE
• 16.10
• The CapsuleA. Crnej SLOVENIA, V. Pfeifer SLOVENIA - Anatomical considerations
  - 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
• 16.30
• New Age Phaco DynamicsR. Packard UK - Physics
  - Pump mechanisms
  - Tip technology
  - Power and delivery
• 17.00
• End of session

Saturday 16 February | 08.00 – 12.30

Chairpersons: R. Packard UK, P. Rosen UK

Part 2: Next Steps……. 

• 08.00
• Managing the NucleusR. Packard UK - Techniques for all types of nucleus
• 08.40
• Complex Cases: Advanced Phaco TechniquesB. Malyugin RUSSIA, R. Packard UK, P. Artal SPAIN, V. Pfeifer SLOVENIA, I. Dekaris CROATIA - Small pupils and IFIS (BM)
  - Subluxated crystalline lenses (BM)
  - Intraoperative zonular crisis (RP)
  - IOLs for cataract patients with AMD (PA)
  - Intraocular lenses with no capsule (VP)
  - Cataract surgery combined with DSEK/DMEK (ID)
  - Cataract surgery after DSEK/PKP (ID)
  
• 10.00
• Break
• 10.20
• What is the Role of Femtosecond Lasers and Cataract Surgery?Z. Nagy HUNGARY - How does it work?
  - What will it do?
  - Results
  - Femto phaco for complex cases
• 10.40
• Intraocular Lens DesignD. Spalton UK - Optic design
  - Haptic design
  - Asphericity
  - Materials
  - Biocompatibility
  - New designs
• 11.00
• Presbyopia Correction with Intraocular LensesF. Kretz GERMANY - Monovision
  - Bifocal
  - Multifocal
  - EDOF
• 11.15
• Intraoperative Correction of Astigmatism: Toric Intraocular LensesS. Ní Dhubhghaill IRELAND - Indications
  - Preoperative assessment
  - Use of intraoperative imaging devices
  - Postoperative fine tuning
• 11.30
• Solutions for Post Cataract Surgery Refractive ErrorM. Amon AUSTRIA - IOL exchange
  - Supplementary IOLs
  
• 11.45
• P. Rosen UK - Corneal laser correction
• 12.00
• Complications Pre and Post-Operatively R. Packard UK - Posterior capsular rupture, vitreous loss and the dropped nucleus
  - Negative dysphotopsia
• 12.30
• End of session