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Comparison of bupivacaine injection vs. mini-tenotomy for small angle deviations

3 June 2024 | Fiona Rowe (Prof) | EYE - Paediatrics, EYE - Strabismus

Bupivacaine hydrochloride is an aminoacyltype local anaesthetic. Injection into extraocular muscles elicits a myotoxic response destroying striated muscle fibres but sparing satellite cells, nerves and vessels. Preserved satellite cells proliferate to form new muscle fibres, causing muscle hypertrophy and greater...

A missed opportunity

1 February 2019 | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Cornea, EYE - General, EYE - Glaucoma, EYE - Imaging, EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology, EYE - Oculoplastic, EYE - Oncology, EYE - Orbit, EYE - Paediatrics, EYE - Pathology, EYE - Refractive, EYE - Strabismus, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal

Back in 2000 Sir Liam Donaldson wrote a piece of work commissioned by the then Secretary of State for Health entitled “An Organisation with a Memory”. We are now 18 years on and still some of the recommendations from them...

The Escape Room and gamification of ophthalmology teaching

3 April 2024 | Akash Dharni | EYE - General

Recently, there has been an interesting development in medical education and its ‘gamification’. Educators are constantly looking for new ways to engage their students by adding a friendly element of competition, as evidenced by the great success of online education...

Keep calm and cut the carbon – improving sustainability in ophthalmology

7 December 2020 | S Vamshi Merugumala | 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...

Effective management of dry eye and ocular surface disease

4 August 2021 | Rod McNeil | EYE - General

Experts recommend a consistent approach to diagnosis, therapeutic targeting by disease subtype and escalation of therapy when tear substitutes are not sufficient. Experts call for a consistent, unified approach to diagnosis of dry eye disease (DED), with a new simple...

OSA members call for a 5-year practice plan at 100% Optical

12 January 2024 | industry, BIB, 100% Optical, 100% ophthalmology

Making a five-year plan for an optical or ophthalmology business is uppermost in OSA members’ minds as they look for the best means of supporting the profession at 100% Optical.

Student Ophthalmology Review Day: SORD

16 November 2023

by Josephine A Bates, FY2 Doctor, North Devon District Hospital, Barnstaple, UK. Opening its doors to medical students across the country once again, the Royal College of Ophthalmologists hosted the Student Ophthalmology Review Day (SORD) with a fantastic turnout. Dr...

A patient report of pseudoxanthoma elasticum, angioid streaks and choroidal neovascularisation

1 October 2015 | Zaria Ali, Mohammed Alarbi, Salwa Abugreen | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Cornea, EYE - General, EYE - Glaucoma, EYE - Imaging, EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology, EYE - Oculoplastic, EYE - Oncology, EYE - Orbit, EYE - Paediatrics, EYE - Pathology, EYE - Refractive, EYE - Strabismus, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal

Angioid streaks (AS) on their own do not cause many problems, with the majority of patients remaining asymptomatic [1]. However, once choroidal neovascularisation (CNV) occurs, the visual prognosis of the patient rapidly declines [2]. Treatment is imperative to try and...

ChatGPT cannot pass FRCOphth examinations: implications for ophthalmology and large language model artificial intelligence

26 April 2023 | Arun James Thirunavukarasu | EYE - General

Large language models are generating a lot of hype for artificial intelligence, but can they assist patients and practitioners in ophthalmology? Introduction Deep learning (DL) has emerged in ophthalmology as an exciting form of artificial intelligence (AI) most commonly applied...

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