October 15, 2021

Features

Diagnostic Skills & Techniques

Be Prepared for Papilledema

Pump up your diagnostic protocol by implementing these tests.

Future of Optometry

Scoping Out Optometry’s Next Era

Momentum has been building to extend practice privileges for ODs, making eye care more accessible than ever before. Here’s where these efforts stand in 2021.

Neuro

Be Prepared for Papilledema

Pump up your diagnostic protocol by implementing these tests.

When Your Patient Complains of Headache

Learn what this signifies and what to do about it.

Patient Care

Take your Practice to New Heights

Adding new services and an expanded level of care for your patients’ benefit, as well as your own, is within reach. Here’s what to keep in mind.

Practice Management

How to Hire, Train and Retain Staff in a Fierce Labor Market

Flexibility, pay increases and employee happiness can optimally position a practice for low turnover and attract the best and the brightest in the field.

Protect Yourself from Malpractice

These insights will help you better understand how to avoid—and best prepare against—it.

Departments

Chairside

Hiatus From Home

Looking for a getaway? There are so many places to go and people to see; you just need to know where to start.

Clinical Quandaries

Prescribing for Two

Be aware of the factors at play for pregnant diabetic women.

Coding Connection

SWOT your Way to a Stronger Practice

Self-examination and awareness are key to preventing an audit.

Cornea and Contact Lens Q & A

Go With the Flow

Corneal hysteresis may help spot glaucoma in KCN patients.

Diagnostic Quiz

Better Never Than Late?

A patient undergoes a seemingly uneventful cataract operation—then things take a turn for the worse.

Focus on Refraction

A Glimpse Into the Future

Objective measurements of visual acuity continue to evolve, with a new method showing promising results.

Glaucoma Grand Rounds

Don’t Complicate Things

Neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s can make glaucoma management more challenging and contribute to disease progression.

Letters to the Editor

Feedback and ideas from the optometric community.

Ocular Surface Review

A Disease for All Seasons

Don’t be fooled by its name: vernal keratoconjunctivitis can cause problems year-round. Heed these pearls to aid care.

Outlook

The Spirit of ’71

That year, legislation and innovation gave optometry a broader clinical mandate and soft contact lenses. How are both faring today?

Surgical Minute

Special Delivery

The Durysta implant eases glaucoma hassles—for a time.

Therapeutic Review

Not as Bad as it Seems

Episcleritis needs proper diagnosis and treatment to alleviate a patient’s worries.

Through My Eyes

The Itch to Innovate

New products entering the market can change the way you manage allergic eye disease.