Ocular injury is an interesting area of eye-care, and perhaps one that we don’t encounter quite as often in modern optometry due to improved safety standards and awareness, but in this post I wanted to highlight a few aspects of this whole subject of ocular injury that we as optometrists should be mindful of. Risk […]
Low Vision Checklist – Free PDF Download – New Updated Version
Following the recent article – Supporting Visually Impaired Patients in Optometry Practice, I have developed a free downloadable Low Vision checklist based on the information of this article. This download could be kept in the test room as a quick ready-reckoner for when you are testing patients with visual impairment, as to the ways you […]
Supporting Visually Impaired Patients in Optometry Practice
Welcome to this article from Optometry-Evolution on how we can best help our visually impaired patients in Optometry practice. In my last hospital optometry role I did regular low vision clinics for about 12years. The vast majority of the patients seen were elderly and had some degree of visual loss due to AMD. In […]
Optic Disc Examination – a few essentials
In this latest blog post I thought it might be useful to give a short overview of how to examine the optic nerve head. I currently do a lot of hospital glaucoma clinics, as this is my main area of clinical interest. The skill of trying to decipher a normal optic nerve, from one which […]
Cataract referrals – a few clinical pearls
A reasonable part of my current hospital role is involved in carrying out cataract assessment clinics, for those patients referred into the hospital for consideration of cataract surgery. These referrals mainly come from our community optometry colleagues, which I hasten to add are generally of a high standard, and occasionally also from GPs. I thought […]
Open Discussion – What will Optometry look like in 15 years time?
I started practicing optometry about 15 years ago as a pre-reg in a busy multiple practice in Dundee. My role has certainly changed greatly since then as I have gone down the path of doing hospital based optometry where my role has evolved as demands are always changing. However when I think of the huge […]
Ocular Emergencies and the Eye Safety Card
The early detection and management of ocular emergencies is an area as eye-care practitioners, where we have a key role to play. The vast majority of patients seen in community optometry practice will be routine cases, with good ocular health, however when serious pathology presents we need to be ready for it, and have a […]
Optometry Today – CET Featured Author
‘Delivering clinical care in the community’ I was asked at the end of last year if I would like to be the featured author for February’s edition of OT, in a link to a piece of CET I had provided for this latest edition. Really interesting experience being posed several questions relating to my own […]
Ever Play Golf in the Dark?
The essential value of gaining feedback as optometrists In this first, of what may turn out to a regular blog post on this site, I want to briefly explore the importance of gaining feedback on our performance as clinicians. I have recently been reading a great book by Matthew Syed called ‘Black Box Thinking.’ It […]
Ocular clinical information for Optometry and GP practice software
Following on from the Eye Safety Card, I am currently writing some new clinical educational material which might be useful to optometry and GP practices. A lot of this material relating to acute eye conditions and glaucoma could have a place either in electronic format for practitioners, or to be integrated into practice software systems […]