This educational session will be presented by Simon Hanna, National Professional Services Manager for Bausch & Lomb on the Ultra^® Monthly contact lens.  This 6 night/7 day extended wear silicone hydrogel lens provides great breathability and other unique features including MoistureSeal^® Technology. The educational session will last approximately 50 minutes in duration with accompanying assessment questions. 

Learning Objectives:
·       To overview the eye health and contact lens portfolio for Bausch & Lomb.

·       To review the benefits of the Ultra^® Monthly contact lens family

·       To review the technology and benefits of an aspheric contact lens design 

·       To highlight the features of Bausch & Lomb’s Ultra ^® for Astigmatism contact lens

·       To highlight the features of Bausch & Lomb’s 3 zone-progressive Ultra^® for Presbyopia contact lens.

Stroke is a common disorder affecting the older population and may result in visual disturbances. This session will cover - common presentations for stroke and its pathophysiology concentrating on visual signs and symptoms, ocular conditions that increase the risk of stroke, primary care management, and tertiary/specialist management of stroke with visual pathway involvement.

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Optometrists provide an important service to people with diabetes, and they are perfectly placed to be an active part of the primary health team for their patients.

Understanding the psychosocial barriers their clients face and how this influences their vision and diabetes management allows optometrists to provide best practice care.

This presentation will discuss how to manage your consults to best address barriers to your patients’ vision and diabetes self-management.  It will offer insights through case studies and share the 3 ‘A’ strategy which has been developed to assist optometrists. 

Following the presentation, participants can apply their new learning immediately in their next patient consults.

Investigation into fitting soft and rigid contact lenses for paediatric patients encompassing beginners tips and tricks, refraction specific fitting considerations, aphakic contact lens fitting and various case studies.

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Vision on a letter chart is the least reliable test to see the effects of a concussion or mTBI. As concussion patients can experience vergence and accommodation dysfunctions along with oculomotor difficulties and abnormal egocentric spatial localisation, there are a number of tests outside of a normal testing procedure that can be used to find out if vision is affected post concussion. Although not exhaustive, this workshop will look at easy to implement extra testing to ascertain if and what part of a concussion patient’s vision is negatively affected by the injury.

 

This case-based session will review the causes of double vision and how to identify if it is benign or potentially sinister. 

 

This lecture will discuss the common and uncommon paediatric ocular conditions and presentations for various age groups. It will detail the test battery used for diagnosis and outline evidence-based treatment and management. It will discuss the challenges involved with examining children and how we can use modern technology to our advantage. 

This presentation will aim to inform optometrists of the ways they can contribute to the investigation and diagnosis of patients with suspected learning disabilities within paediatric practice. This will include additional testing batteries, such as visual information processing. It will also address strategies for optimal appointments for children with disabilities and adaptations to the clinical examination to aid both child and optometrist. Medicare billing and interdisciplinary collaboration will also be addressed.

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Visual impairment for every person is unique in terms of onset, diagnosis, progression, and treatment. Losing your vision and adjusting to life with limited or no vision can be a scary and confronting experience. While the primary loss is losing the ability to see, the associated secondary losses are often overlooked. Thus, the impact of vision impairment travels beyond the physical loss and quickly expands to a person’s social, emotional, and psychological functioning. 

At Guide Dogs Queensland, we empower individuals with low or no vision and their families to overcome the barriers and look to the future with hope and confidence as they adjust to a new life. The practice at Guide Dogs Queensland uses a person-centred, multidisciplinary approach to provide a holistic service. The service includes Orientation and Mobility, Guide Dog Mobility, Occupational Therapy, Assistive Technology, Psychology, and Lifestyle and Leisure programs. Adjustment period may vary from individual to individual; hence, it is crucial that the services are tailored to the client’s needs while taking into consideration their readiness to engage.

In this session, I would like to demonstrate how services are delivered at Guide Dogs Queensland to support clients through the period of adjustment. 

 

Unfortunately Prescribing Prism for non- strabismic binocular vision conditions with Glenn Baltrop has been cancelled.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

The lecture (30mins) will cover the causes and effects of inflammatory and allergic conditions of local and systemic origin involving the anterior eye (skin, lid margins, ocular surface, limbus, cornea, anterior chamber). Early therapeutic interventions will be discussed as well as the implications of the disorders and associated further investigations that may be required. 

 

We will demonstrate how wavefront refraction results can be assessed subjectively in the consulting room.
Instruments used: Wavefront Analyser, Liqiud Lens Phoropter and 0.12D trial lens Set.

The session will run through how to set yourself up with a pathology provider, how to take a swab, what to write on the form, how to get a specimen collected, how to get the results and what to do with them.

 

In this session attendees will gain an understanding of the different refractive surgery options available to their patients and how to determine which procedure is most appropriate for a given patient.  Refractive procedures will include PRK, LASIK, phakic intraocular lens implantation and refractive lens exchange.  

 

Learn about Vision Australia’s specialised services available for your blind and low vision patients. Also, understand the very latest technology available to assist them.

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Jackson Yip and Shaina Zheng, the optometrists at Eyecare Plus Mermaid Beach will be discussing the Inmode Envision, the newest treatment for dry eye that incorporates RF technology and IPL technology to treat meibomian gland dysfunction. The session will give an introduction about the machine, how it works and benefits of the treatment. Live demonstration and case studies to be discussed.

 

Anterior Eye Q&A

A discussion of the pros and cons of different pharmaceutical management options for myopia from the coal face, including a discussion of approaches to making clinical decisions when the research data does not give a clear and unambiguous answer.

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