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Infection prevention and control through a VISION 2020 LINK between Mombasa and Southampton
1 April 2017
| Ross Cahill, Lizzi Lewis, Majula Rajamani, Truphosa Imali, Phenny Khandoro, George Binns, George Munywoki, Colin Elkin, Samantha Palmer, Dario Inzerillo, Aby Jacob, Marcia Zondervan
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EYE - Cataract, EYE - Cornea, EYE - Glaucoma, EYE - Imaging, EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology, EYE - Oculoplastic, EYE - Oncology, EYE - Orbit, EYE - Paediatrics, EYE - Pathology, EYE - Refractive, EYE - Strabismus, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - General
The authors share how a partnership between Mombasa and Southampton has enabled Kenyan healthcare professionals from four institutions to innovate and work as a group to improve infection prevention and control. Infection prevention and control (IPC) is a cornerstone of...
Moorfields Education: Basic slit lamp and Goldmann tonometry study day
5 October 2024
This basic slit lamp and Goldmann tonometry study day is designed to provide delegates with a comprehensive understanding of the slit lamp anterior segment eye examination and Goldmann tonometry including its history, theory and practical applications.
Impact of orthoptic re-exam in screening
The authors evaluated whether the re-examination within the orthotic screening in children with questionable results at the first examination can reduce the number of submissions to specialists and avoid a high number of false positives. This was a retrospective study...PlusoptiX and SPOT screening
The goal of this study was to determine whether an instrument that uses referral criteria having a high specificity (plusoptiX S08) would fail to refer children who have significant amblyopia and who would have been detected by an instrument using...Testing fusional amplitude
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of varied testing distance and order of testing on fusion amplitudes in subjects with normal eye examinations, along with impact of examination encouragement and subject level of alertness. Average age...Clinical course of vitreomacular adhesion managed by initial observation
1 April 2014
| Nikolaos D Georgakarakos
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EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
The purpose of this study was to investigate the clinical course of patients with idiopathic vitreomacular adhesion (VMA) with a noncomparative case series of patients who had clinical symptoms and spectral-domain optical coherence tomography findings consistent with VMA. The VMA...
Predicting causes and prognosis in cases of optic disc swelling
1 December 2017
| Claire Howard
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EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology
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Bilateral, cause, optic disc swelling, unilateral
The authors reviewed 93 consecutive cases with optic disc swelling (ODS) with the purpose of comparing the clinical manifestations and prognosis between cases. The aim was to understand the differences in frequency and clinical features of ODS, relating these to...
What to expect when meeting a statistician
1 August 2014
| Gabriela Czanner
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EYE - General
There are a growing number of statisticians working closely with ophthalmologists. They have different training but they are driven by the same goal: to perform high quality evidence based clinical research [1,2]. In a perfect world we would simply conduct...
The screening and treatment of retinopathy of prematurity
1 December 2013
| B Manoj, F Dean
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EYE - Paediatrics, EYE - Strabismus, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - General
A male child is born at 31 weeks and requires 100% oxygen supplementation with intensive care. What would be the ophthalmic management of this child? In the first instance, it will be useful to know the screening criteria and protocol....
My Top Five: Duke Elder Undergraduate Ophthalmology Prize Exam Tips
1 December 2022
| Paras Agarwal, Oana Vonica, Zaria Ali
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EYE - General
The prestigious Duke Elder Undergraduate Ophthalmology exam in the UK is aimed at medical students who have completed their ophthalmology undergraduate teaching but is open to all medical undergraduates provided they have not graduated at the time of the examination....
My Top Five: Duke Elder Undergraduate Ophthalmology Prize Exam Tips
1 December 2022
| Paras Agarwal, Oana Vonica, Zaria Ali
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EYE - General
The prestigious Duke Elder Undergraduate Ophthalmology exam in the UK is aimed at medical students who have completed their ophthalmology undergraduate teaching but is open to all medical undergraduates provided they have not graduated at the time of the examination....
Assessing the effectiveness of undergraduate ophthalmic assessments in the UK: A literature review
2 June 2025
| Connor Henry-Blake, Elisabeth Baggus, Muhammed Jawad
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EYE - General
During 2008–2009, 300,000 patients presented to hospital emergency departments in the UK with eye conditions. This rose by nearly 200,000 over the next decade. As the population ages, the prevalence of eye disease increases [1,2]. However, the stake ophthalmology holds...