Cataract Surgery Didactic Course

This course is EBO accredited - click here for more information

Friday 3 February
15.00 – 17.00
HALL 1

Part I
Chairpersons: R. Packard UK, P. Rosen UK

• 15.00
• P. Rosen UK
  - Patient flow
  - Theatre nurses
  - Setting up microscope
  - Principles of surgery
  - Draping and anaesthesia  

Incisions

• 15.30
• L. De Benito-Llopis SPAIN
  - Temporal vs superior
  - Corneal vs scleral
  - Knife technology  

The Capsule

• 15.50
• D . Spalton UK, M.J. Tassignon BELGIUM 
  - Basic ergonomics
  - Use of needle and forceps
  - Staining
  - Tear out recovery
  - Posterior capsulorhexis
  - Management of PCO including YAG laser surgery
• 16.20
• I. Pallikaris GREECE
  Femtosecond lasers and cataract surgery
• 16.30
• Discussion
• 17.00
• End of session

Saturday 4 February
08.00 – 12.45
CHEZ LOUIS

Part II
Chairpersons: R. Packard UK, P. Rosen UK

Teaching, Training and Learning Cataract Surgery

• 08.00
• T. Kohnen GERMANY
  Teaching the teachers of cataract surgery  
• 08.20
• K. Tjia THE NETHERLANDS
  Learning how to learn cataract surgery 

21st Century Phaco Dynamics

• 08.30
• R. Packard UK
  - Physics
  - Pump mechanisms
  - Tip technology
  - Power and delivery

Phaco Techniques

• 09.20
• R. Packard UK
  - For soft, medium, hard cataracts
  
  V. Pfeifer SLOVENIA
  - Phaco chop
  
  A. Franchini ITALY
  - BMICS
  
  S. Morselli ITALY
  - CMICS
• 10.20
• Break
• 10.40
• Z. Biro HUNGARY
  Viscoelastics

Lenses

• 11.00
• M. Filipec CZECH REPUBLIC
  The ideal intraocular lens
• 11.10
• R. Bellucci ITALY
  Aspheric lenses
• 11.20
• O. Findl AUSTRIA
  Multifocals
• 11.30
• G. Auffarth GERMANY
  Accommodating lenses
• 11.40
• B. Frueh SWITZERLAND
  Toric IOLs
• 11.50
• G. Kahraman AUSTRIA
  Supplementary lenses
• 12.00
• C. Peckar UK
  Monovision

Video Symposium: Complications and complex cases

• 12.10
• B. Malyugin RUSSIA, V. Picardo ITALY, P. Rosen UK,
  I. Prieto PORTUGAL, V. Pfeifer SLOVENIA
• 12.45
• End of session