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Empatheyes

4 December 2023 |
For Dec/Jan 2024 we are showcasing a remarkably well-named technological solution. Empatheyes provides a unique way for people to increase their understanding of the experience of having a sight disorder. Whether for parents of children with sight disorders, corporate awareness...

Practical phacodynamics – making the most of your phacoemulsification machine

1 October 2018 | | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive, EYE - General
Understanding phacodynamics is appreciating the subtleties in the dynamic changes of the fluidics and the ultrasonic power delivered. Kristina Southcott explains. Increase my vacuum! Increase my bottle height! Increase my phaco power! I frequently observe the above commands being directed...

Simulating the visual impairment symptoms of age-related macular degeneration in virtual reality

5 June 2023 | | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
A new virtual reality application visually simulates age-related macular degeneration and demonstrates its progression over time including some Charles Bonnet syndrome hallucinations. Introduction Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of blindness in developed countries with the prevalence of...

IWD 2024: Women-led eye care is helping to shrink the blindness gender gap in Bangladesh

8 March 2024 | IWD24, international womans day, charity, Orbis, equal, global
International Women's Day 2024 - a lack of female health providers is stealing the sight of women around the world. Blindness prevention charity Orbis is working to change this.

Recognising responsibility, breakthrough design

21 October 2024 | SILMO 2024, awards, competitions, meetings, events, conferences, fashion, opticians, glasses
Celebrating achievements in the international optical world, the 30th anniversary of the Silmo d’Or Awards was a spectacular event. Eyewear designers, international media and senior optical executives and VIPs were welcomed to the underground halls of the Carrousel du Louvre...

Glasgow eye department continues to disrupt ocular simulation training through novel DRV system - the first of many?

24 November 2022 | | EYE - General, EYE - Imaging
Ongoing technological developments are enabling continuous progress to be made across all aspects of medical simulation training. This is particularly true within the field of ophthalmology, where surgical training advancements have enabled the role of simulation to expand dramatically over...

Glasgow eye department continues to disrupt ocular simulation training through novel DRV system - the first of many?

28 November 2022 | | EYE - Imaging, EYE - General
Ongoing technological developments are enabling continuous progress to be made across all aspects of medical simulation training. This is particularly true within the field of ophthalmology, where surgical training advancements have enabled the role of simulation to expand dramatically over...

Comic leaflets: an innovative method of patient education

1 August 2014 | | EYE - General
Nowadays almost everyone has been exposed to comics, especially during childhood. In a way, this is a natural form of progression from children’s story books, which also contain words and pictures. This exposure has helped us to develop the graphic...

An environmentally friendly eye service

1 August 2025 | | climate change, sustainability news, net zero, greenhouse gases, environment
A single cataract procedure in the UK has been estimated to have a carbon footprint equivalent to driving a typical non-electric car for 310 miles. Surprisingly, very few centres around the world have worked out the environmental cost of cataract...

The results of the last survey Dec21

1 December 2021 | | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - General
Consent is a hot topic at the moment and the publication of the GMC Guidance on Consent [1] has rightfully refocussed our attention on it. Consent practices vary wildly and have been the subject of many of these surveys. Once...

Climb every mountain!

2 August 2024 |
Recently, on a weekend break away in the beautiful Cairngorms, I foolishly let it be known that I had never actually climbed a ‘Munro’, despite having moved from Northern Ireland to Scotland nearly 17 years ago! For the unaware, Munros...

Keep calm and cut the carbon – improving sustainability in ophthalmology

7 December 2020 | | EYE - General
As I dump my tenth pair of gloves into a non-recyclable clinical waste bin; dispose of another handful of plastic minims; or print another wad of single-sided discharge paperwork after a cataract surgery, the inconvenient truth of how these seemingly...