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Friday 15 February | 14.30 – 17.00
Moderators: R. Packard UK, P. Rosen UK, W. Omulecki POLAND, A. Crnej SLOVENIA
Part 1
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- 14.30
- T. Kohnen GERMANY
Teaching the teachers of cataract surgery
- 14.45
- P. Ursell UK
Learning how to learn cataract surgery
- 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
- A.Crnej SLOVENIA
Incisions
- Temporal vs superior
- Corneal vs scleral
- Knife technology
- 15.55
- L. Benjamin , UK 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
- Discussion
- 17.00
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End of session
Saturday 16 February | 08.00 – 12.30
Moderators: R. Packard UK, P. Rosen UK, W. Omulecki POLAND, A. Crnej SLOVENIA
Part 2
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- 08.00
- R. Packard UK
21st Century Phaco Dynamics
- Physics
- Pump mechanisms
- Tip technology
- Power and delivery
- 08.30
- W. Omulecki POLAND, B. Malyugin RUSSIA, V. Pfeifer SLOVENIA, P. Stodulka CZECH REPUBLIC, R. Packard UK, P. Rosen UK
Complications and complex cases - Advanced phaco techniques
- Soft, medium, hard cataracts
- Phaco chop (Pfeiffer)
- BMICS vs CMICS
- Small pupils and IFIS
- Short vs long eyes
- Subluxed crytalline and pseudophakic lenses
- Vitreous loss
- Dropped nucleus
- Intraocular lenses with no capsule
- 10.15
- Break
- 10.30
- J. Szaflik POLAND
Femtosecond lasers and cataract surgery
- How does it work
- What will it do
- Results
- Use in complex cases
- 10.50
- D. Spalton 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. Filipec CZECH REPUBLIC
Post-operative ametropia correction - laser refractive surgery
- 12.05
- M. Amon AUSTRIA
Supplementary lenses
- 12.20
- Questions and answers
- 12.30
- End of session
