I wanted to write again on glaucoma as we all see many patients with glaucoma everywhere --- many unfortunately with severe, advanced, end-stage glaucoma when we first see them. As you know, glaucoma ...

Recently an ophthalmologist in a developing country asked me when I would start a patient with ocular hypertension ( mid-20’s IOP and a normal cup / disc ratio ) on therapy. I wanted to follow up ...

Recently I was able to show  a health care provider two separate patients with an eyelash caught / embedded under a pterygium on the bulbar conjunctiva. I have seen this previously  simply ...

Dr David Chang shares this article that was published recently in the CRST Europe edition.
http://www.globalsight.org/pdf/Lessons_all_cataract_surgeons.pdf

Dr. Sui Chien Wong joined the team of EyeCare Project Physicians in 2014, when the London-based ophthalmologist got a call from the EyeCare Project's Founder Dr. Roger Ohanesian ...

Visual Field testing ( perimetry ) is useful but often the first test is unreliable.

Someone should stay in room with patient and have them look straight ahead. The test is worthless if patient is ...

#1. Get a  history from the mother. What is the eye problem? Was the child born pre-mature. ? Does the mother think the child can see? Has any other eye doctor seen the patient. What was their ...

 #1. If the V.A. is 20/60 or 20/70 with both eyes open without glasses then that may be sufficient vision. Everyone does not need to see 20/30 at distance. Many patients know their numbers but ...

#A. Get a good history. Did the patient use to see well in that eye or always poor vision ( lazy eye).  Any hx of old trauma?

 

#B. Check IOP. Look at that eye with slit lamp.Is the ...

When the YWAM Medical Ships team first met Mandy, she was blind with bilateral cataracts.

Mandy had been blind for three years, she could only see light and dark shades and was heavily reliant on ...