Assessing patients with cataract is something that almost every Eyecare professional is involved in to some degree due to the volume of patients requiring treatment for this condition. Community optometrists are on the front line of detecting and referring patients with cataract while clinicians in the hospital service and other cataract surgery providers are involved in the assessment […]
Optometry Today Article – Post Operative Cataract Care
Optometrists are getting more and more involved in the care of post-operative cataract patients, both in hospital and in community practice. I have recently authored an article looking at this area in order to give some clinical tips on how to carry out these assessments. This is now published in the August edition of Optometry […]
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 […]