2024 Year in Review

Features

Annual Technology Report

Online Refraction and Telehealth: Friend or Foe?

These options can expand access and patient convenience but must be matched with protocols and public awareness campaigns that preserve the value of a comprehensive exam.

Contact Lenses

My Seven Secrets to Specialty Contact Lens Success

Learn the principles that will allow you to integrate this modality into your practice.

Cornea

Sizing Up Keratoconus: The Roles of Topography and Tomography

Three different imaging modalities serve their own purposes for diagnosing and monitoring this condition.

The Many Mishaps of the Anterior Segment

The eye’s first line of defense against external threats is often compromised by infection or injury. Systemic conditions frequently also manifest changes here as well.

Diabetes

AMD Staging: More Than Wet Vs. Dry

Various imaging biomarkers can help you get a truer sense of disease status and predict a patient’s risk of progression. Here’s what to look out for.

Dry Eye

“Why Isn’t My Dry Eye Therapy Working?”

When a patient doesn’t respond to treatment, it’s time to revisit the clinical findings and consider differential diagnoses.

Glaucoma

Questions and Controversies in Glaucoma Care

We tackle nine hot debates about this disease with the most current research available.

Neuro

Guidelines For IIH Management in Optometric Practice

Explore the causes and symptoms of this condition as well as effective management strategies.

Navigating Optic Nerve Differentials

Use this systematic protocol to arrive at the proper diagnosis without delay.

Pediatrics

How to Perform a Peds Exam in Under Five Minutes

Have no fear. Learn the keys to examining pediatric patients for the generalist optometrist.

Pharmaceuticals

Safe and Savvy Prescribing of Oral Pharmaceuticals

Two experts share their best “dos and don'ts” to help you confidently handle the most common scenarios across several different categories of medications.

Technology

Online Refraction and Telehealth: Friend or Foe?

These options can expand access and patient convenience but must be matched with protocols and public awareness campaigns that preserve the value of a comprehensive exam.

Departments

Advanced Procedures

Oust the Cyst

Integrate these eyelid lesion removals into your surgical arsenal.

Chairside

My Favorite Patients

Kids, dads, gamers, know-it-alls—I just love them.

Cornea and Contact Lens Q & A

Fungal Frenzy

Certain species have more recently been studied for their responsiveness to nonconventional forms of therapies.

Diagnostic Quiz

The Enemy Within

A patient presents with anterior uveitis as well as several systemic conditions, plus retinal detachment. What’s going on?

Focus on Refraction

Modify Your Exam with the Modified Thorington

This quick test can cue the practitioner in to subtle vertical deviations that can evade detection on cover test.

Glaucoma Grand Rounds

Adjusting Therapy When Warranted

The importance of fitting pieces together in the glaucoma puzzle.

Ocular Surface Review

Shining the Slit Lamp on ADCs

ODs can greatly help ovarian cancer patients who are taking this advanced therapeutic agent, specifically Elahere.

Outlook

51 Flavors of Optometry

The profession’s fragmented legal basis lets some states surge while others languish, creating dozens of varieties.

Retina Quiz

It's the Pits

Managing this condition can be quite challenging.

Surgical Minute

A Close-up on Corneal Transplant Surgeries

In this first installment of a series, we look carefully at the original procedure—PK—with a focus on post-op management.

The Essentials

Provoked Proteins

Two blood tests can offer greater insight about whether an inflammation-causing eye condition is present.

Therapeutic Review

Heartfelt Insight

Be aware of the cardiopulmonary effects of beta blockers.

Through My Eyes

Stop Punishing Doctors

It’s time to reform healthcare—where it truly needs it.

Urgent Care

Not So Nerve-ous

Know the signs of this frequently misdiagnosed condition.

You Be the Judge

Flashes? Think Beyond the Retina

Limiting your exam of a patient who presents with this complaint can prove to be disastrous.