A recent Australian survey has found many parents are shocked to learn their children have vision problems and struggle with a range of issues and emotions at the time of diagnosis and during treatment.
CXL-assisted infection reduction: a randomised clinical trial evaluating the effect of adjuvant CXL on outcomes in fungal keratitis
Cataract surgery is the most commonly performed operation globally, with over 30,000 performed per annum in New Zealand. The surgery has transformed into a refractive procedure in recent years, with
I once heard the most successful optometrist I have ever worked alongside tell a patient, “No, I will not fit my lenses into that piece of rubbish!” It was a very expensive branded rimless frame the client had purchased elsewhere.
Eye injuries from line trimmers (also known as strimmers, weed eaters, weed whackers and brush cutters) result from high velocity foreign body impact, causing mechanical tissue disruption and microbial contamination with bacteria and fungi¹.
I have been offering ortho-k to patients for about a decade and I am still impressed by what this modality has to give.
Over the past month and a half, the unfolding pandemic has presented optometry with many new challenges which may alter the way we interact with patients forever.
At the end of last year, I was lucky enough to do three locum visiting optometry contracts with the Brien Holden Foundation (BHF) and local Aboriginal communities in Australia.
Neovascular glaucoma (NVG) is a glaucoma that develops secondary to ischaemic retinal vascular disease. It is characterised by anterior segment neovascularisation leading to an increase in intraocular
Optometry has been one of the hardest hit industries in the Covid-19 era. Not being an essential service, yet at the same time being a health provider, with a high patient-to-practitioner risk of
Due to the government’s Alert Level 3 restrictions, Eye Institute’s first 2020 seminar in the middle of May became a virtual affair, attracting nearly 400 New Zealand optometrists.
As Covid-19 takes centre stage in global healthcare, specialist health departments around the world are already experiencing major patient backlogs. In the New Zealand Canterbury and Wellington regions alone, more than 1,500 elective surgeries have been delayed as a result of higher restrictions in
