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BVI brings Finevision to the forefront of the refractive community at London event

20 October 2023 | Research & Development, Awards, Conferences & Anniversaries

Damien Gatinel, Head of The Anterior and Refractive Surgery, Paris, and Amir Hamid, Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, London addressed an audience at the Finevision event sponsored by BVI at No 11 Cavendish Square, London on 13 October 2023.

Designing ophthalmology services Part 3: How do we address the queues post‑COVID-19?

5 August 2020 | Martin Dowdal, Caspar Gibbon, Kate Silvester | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - General

Part 1 of this series available herePart 2 of this series available here There is going to be enormous demand on ophthalmology services as they start to welcome patients back. The authors explain how modelling can help make the most...

“Herr Doktor, I can’t see but I am driving”

1 February 2018 | Anne Brueggemann | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - General

This 56-year-old lady was quite puzzling. With her own glasses and the pinhole she merely managed to see the 1.3 and 1.0 logMAR lines with her right and left eye, respectively (I am currently working in Germany again, so goodbye...

Simulation in ophthalmology: a pedagogic viewpoint

1 April 2017 | Inderpaul S Sian, Kaveh Vahdani | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive

The advent of simulation technology has enhanced modern medical training. The first utilisation of simulation was in 1929 where Edward Link used this concept to develop a mechanical flight simulator [1]. Industries such as aviation, nuclear power and the military...

Do steroids prevent progression to proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR)?

1 February 2017 | Usha Chakravarthy (Prof) | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal

There is continuing debate on the merits of pan-retinal photocoagulation (PRP) for severe pre-proliferative and proliferative DR versus the newer therapies that inhibit vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF). This has been hotly debated [1] following the publication of findings from...

Life as a Global Citizen Consultant Ophthalmologist: a personal view of working in Scotland and Tanzania

3 October 2022 | Rosie Brennan, Bernadetha Robert Shilio, Marcia Zondervan, Covadonga Bascaran | EYE - General

Global Citizen post - a new challenge I was looking for a new challenge. I had been in the same consultant post with a subspecialty interest in paediatrics and strabismus for 17 years and was rattling around in an empty...

The Eye Health Network – an ‘optometry-first’ approach to eye care

1 April 2014 | Stephen McPherson, John Olson | EYE - Cornea

Historically, in NHS Grampian, ophthalmology and optometry worked separately, with even the process of optometry referral to hospital occurring only at the behest of the patient’s general practitioner (GP). Criteria for referral were not discussed and feedback after referral was...

Safety and efficacy of a nurse-led intravitreal injection service using an Precivia® injection assist device

1 December 2021 | Ibrar Ahmed, Panayiotis Maghsoudlou, Hani Hasan, Allaaeldin Abumattar, Nimish Shah | EYE - Vitreo-Retinal, EYE - General

Nurse-led intravitreal injections have become of great importance for busy eye units. In this article, the authors present safety data from five years of a nurse-led service with the use of the Precivia® intravitreal injection assist device. Intravitreal injections of...

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