Glaucoma suspects using a self-administered iPad test for visual field defects took a third of the time of traditional in-clinic testing and achieved greater sensitivity, reported Australian researchers.
After two years of limited or cancelled meetings due to Covid-19, it was a breath of fresh air to arrive at Blenheim’s Marlborough Events Centre and ASB Theatre for the RANZCO NZ Branch meeting. Amid the lingering pandemic and ever-changing gathering restrictions, RANZCO’s conference committee and o
Adaptability in challenging times was the theme of the 2022 RANZCO New Zealand branch meeting in Blenheim. As with the main sessions, shared with the ophthalmologists, the ophthalmic nurses and allied health component of the conference reflected a health sector rapidly adapting to the pandemic’s ong
In December 2021, we described normal variations in the iris and iris changes in certain genetic conditions, systemic diseases, and malignant tumours. In the second part of this mini-series, we explore eye conditions resulting in iris transillumination defects and rubeosis.
When considering how vision works, it is tempting to treat the retina as a digital camera. It converts light into electricity, performs some simple computations and reliably (but passively) conveys the result to the user, who is left to make sense of the picture.
The first time I heard about a monster bike ride from Cape Reinga to Bluff, I was in the doctor’s surgery. My GP was wiry, a keen bike rider, a role model. He and half a dozen friends were about to set off on a mighty fundraising adventure, riding the length of the country in honour of a mate who ha
As one of a handful events not cancelled or moved online, Eye Doctors’ first 2022 Grand Round was well attended by around 60 participants, all eager to catch up in person over some refreshments and claim some much-needed CPD. The new Remuera Golf Club venue did not disappoint, despite the mid-semina
Recent literature has increasingly reported on a clinical entity found in the fellow eyes of patients undergoing treatment for unilateral exudative neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD).
A common incidental clinical finding among optometrists is ‘narrow angles'. That worryingly thin black space on Van Herick assessment alerts us to dust off our gonioscopy lens and perhaps look for some more benoxinate. Management would be straightforward if all the clinical signs showed an eye in tr
When you think of an optical store, what immediately springs to mind? Do you imagine mirrors and racks of glasses with a very serious, medical vibe? As a specs wearer from age 12, that’s definitely the vision I have become accustomed to.
I am sure that it doesn’t feel that long ago when, as affiliated health providers, you were consumed with the introduction of vaccination mandates.
As a medical student in Oxford, UK, in the 1990s, I was fortunate enough to be lectured by the late Dr David Sackett, considered one of the pioneers of evidence-based medicine (EBM), defined as the integration of the best research evidence with clinical expertise and patient values. As well as being