July 15, 2021

Features

Cataract

Clear Up Cataract Concerns

Properly understanding and addressing patient questions could make a world of difference in their visual outcomes.

Comanagement

Keep Glaucoma Care Close to Home

While comanagement is a key component of long-term success, ODs must take on the lion’s share of day-to-day responsibilities for these patients.

Diagnostic Skills & Techniques

Diagnosing Glaucoma: How to Steer Clear of Trouble

Here are several instances where conflicting or misleading information could lead you astray—and what to do about it.

Glaucoma

Understanding ONH Dynamics in Glaucoma and Beyond

Clinicians must know what a healthy optic nerve head looks like and how it functions before they can appreciate the dysfunction that happens with disease.

Diagnosing Glaucoma: How to Steer Clear of Trouble

Here are several instances where conflicting or misleading information could lead you astray—and what to do about it.

Keep Glaucoma Care Close to Home

While comanagement is a key component of long-term success, ODs must take on the lion’s share of day-to-day responsibilities for these patients.

OCT Interpretation for Glaucoma: Don’t Get Fooled

Be thorough to identify any underlying causes of optic disc edema and ensure those issues are managed appropriately at the ED.

Neuro

A Results-Oriented Neuro Work-up For Generalists

Be thorough to identify any underlying causes of optic disc edema and ensure those issues are managed appropriately at the ED.

Practice Management

Optometry at Work: The How, When and Where of Who Delivers Care

Wide-ranging study finds a more balanced distribution between the genders, yet the profession falls short with minorities.

Departments

Chairside

There’s a Drop For That

These ocular meds are a hot commodity for both patients and practitioners.

Clinical Quandaries

Don't Blow Your Top

Confrontation fields may be the only clue to this disorder.

Coding Connection

Make Glaucoma Pay

Preventing claim rejections and audit exposure is key.

Cornea and Contact Lens Q & A

Shape-shifter

Monitoring scleral topography changes over time helps ensure a consistently optimized fit.

Diagnostic Quiz

A Well-Red Patient

Eliciting a good case history can reveal much about the status of an acute hemorrhage and how you should manage it.

Letters to the Editor

Feedback and ideas from the optometric community.

Outlook

Legislation With Vision

Both chambers of Congress are advocating expansion of Medicare to include eye care services. Let’s support it.

The Essentials

Encircling the Arcus

While this finding usually shouldn’t raise alarm, be aware of atypical presentations that could lead to disastrous consequences.

Through My Eyes

Become Who You Are

With legal standing and abundant patients, optometrists can and should be masters of glaucoma.

Urgent Care

Black and Blue and Red All Over

This rare subconjunctival hemorrhage formation required a tailored approach to stop the bleeding.