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Should it be a mandatory requirement for medical students to receive the COVID-19 vaccine to attend clinical attachments?
The vast majority of medical students have positive attitudes towards the COVID-19 vaccine for themselves and patients, however, what about the small inevitable minority who resist it? Should they be prevented from attending clinical attachments in the NHS? It is...Axial length measurement advice to be shared in webinar
The first BCLA webinar of 2024 will look at using axial length measurement as a guide for decision making around myopia management.
Safety and outcome of microincision vitreous surgery in uveitis
This paper reports the outcomes of microincision vitreous surgery (MIVS) 23G/25G in uveitis of 103 patients (106 eyes) who underwent diagnostic MIVS over a period of four years at the Advanced Eye centre in Chandigarth India. The postoperative evaluation included...Donation to VCHP marks start of new partnership
Yorkshire eyecare company, The Body Doctor Ltd, has made a generous donation to Vision Care for Homeless People (VCHP) to help the charity improve eye health in the West Yorkshire region. VCHP operates from 10 static clinics across the UK...
Conventional vs. accelerated cross-linking
The Dresden protocol of 3mW/cm2 irradiance for 30 minutes has been extensively studied and has shown advantageous clinical and topographical results. However, this protocol is time-consuming and therefore accelerated CXL using higher irradiance to shorten treatment duration has emerged. The...
Preoperative anxiety levels and pain during cataract surgery
Increased anxiety has been shown to be associated with greater pain in a number of procedures. In this observational, non-interventional study, the authors sought to evaluate the correlation between pain with phacoemulsification surgery (under topical and intracameral local anaesthesia) and...
Tetracaine to reduce OCR
This study investigates the effects of Tetracaine eye drops on oculocardiac reflex (OCR) during strabismus surgery. A randomised controlled trial of 70 strabismus surgery patients aged two to 19 years was conducted with comparison of Tetracaine versus placebo. Demographics were...
Teprotumumab for chronic TED
This retrospective case series looks at the use of teprotumumab in nine patients with thyroid eye disease (TED) of clinical activity score ≤one and >nine months duration, in an American cohort. Current European guidelines have suggested the use of teprotumumab...
Factors associated with inferior oblique transposition surgery and occurrence of anti-elevation syndrome
The purpose of this study was to correlate the frequency of anti-elevation syndrome (AES) with the magnitude of the anterior transposition of the inferior oblique. This was a retrospective study of 312 eyes of 170 patients. Mean age at surgery...
Esotropia Duane’s syndrome (DRS) surgery
The authors aimed to compare the safety and efficacy of augmented superior rectus transposition surgery with / without medial rectus (MR) recession versus MR recession along in the treatment of esotropic DRS. This was a prospective randomised trial of 20...
