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In this talk, we will explore machine learning, deep learning, and AI with relevant examples from eye care. We will also discuss why AI hasn’t taken practice by storm, and why the flood of data now available in care settings is underutilised.
Learning Objectives:
An understanding of the difference between machine learning and deep learning
An understanding of the difference between AI and statistical analysis
An appreciation of the range of factors limiting AI deployment in eye care
This presentation will provide an overview of Bausch & Lomb’s most complete daily disposable silicone hydrogel lens, the Ultra® One Day lens. This session will cover the benefits and features of the lens and highlight the technology behind the material.
Learning Objective:
Review the features of the most complete daily disposable silicone hydrogel lens on the market and its benefits for patients
This is a 30 minute break for you to grab a cuppa and stretch your legs. You can also have a look around and visit our sponsors booths and download some brochures.
Lifestyle choices we make often define the person we are and reflect the life we’ve chosen to live, but how often do we stop to think of the impact these choices might be having on the eyes’ surface? Diseases of the ocular surface, including dry eye disease, are becoming increasingly prevalent, adversely impacting quality of life for those affected. The recently completed TFOS Lifestyle Workshop, A Lifestyle Epidemic: Ocular Surface Disease, reviews the latest scientific evidence to help us learn more about a wide range of lifestyle choices and challenges that have the potential to affect the eyes. Across eight reports, over 150 experts from 38 countries have taken a deep dive into risk factors implicated in the development and propagation of ocular surface disease, exploring the impact of contact lenses, cosmetics, nutrition, the digital environment, elective medications and procedures, as well as environmental challenges, lifestyle challenges and societal challenges. This presentation will provide a summary of some of the key outcomes from this global consensus report, offer evidence-based recommendations for promoting optimal ocular surface health, and recognise the limits of current knowledge that are expected to drive research into the future, in our quest to offer the best eye care we can for our patients.
Learning objectives:
To understand how ocular surface diseases can arise from, and be exacerbated by, common lifestyle choices such as diet and cosmetics
To understand the role local indoor and external environmental exposures play in driving the development of ocular surface diseases
To gain knowledge to help patients optimise quality of life using evidence-based recommendations, to minimise impacts of lifestyle choices and mitigate ocular surface disease development and propagation.
As the prevalence and severity of myopia continue to increase with each generation, the responsibility falls to optometrists to educate paediatric patients and their parents on the importance of myopia control. Just as essential as myopia control promotion, is ensuring that the information we provide is evidence-based and best suited for each patient. This session will provide an overview of the most up-to-date treatment options available in Australia, discuss how to identify the most suitable mono- or dual-therapy for your patient, and how to measure and monitor ‘success’.
Learning objectives:
To gain a comprehensive overview of the myopia control treatments available in Australia, and how to pick the right treatment for your patient.
To learn the expected efficacy of each treatment, how to gauge your patient’s treatment effect, and to identify when a patient might need to consider dual therapy.
This presentation will explore the aims of conducting a dry eye diagnostic examination followed by a review of the clinical signs associated with ocular surface inflammation and dysregulation, specifically that which can lead to a diagnosis of dry eye. The spectrum of dry eye disease severity and a practical approach for targeted topical and oral therapeutic management will be discussed.
Learning Objectives:
Review the cycle of inflammation associated with the ‘vicious circle of dry eye disease’.
Appreciate diagnostic criteria for dry eye disease categorisation.
Consider current topical and oral therapeutic management strategies that best combat the clinical signs observed.
In this session we will discuss the evidence for the role of near work in common myopia development, including how near work alters the eye’s biometry and analyse the reasons for the varying opinions on the role of binocular vision and accommodation errors in myopia. We will also explore what near work advice should be provided.
Learning Objectives: On completion of this CPD activity, participants should be able to:
Explain the role of near work in myopia.
Understand how the biometry changes during near work.
Understand the varying opinions on binocular vision and accommodation errors in myopia.
This is a 15 minute break for you to grab a bite to eat or cuppa and stretch your legs. You can also have a look around and visit our sponsors booths and download some brochures.
This is a 15 minute break for you to grab a bite to eat or cuppa and stretch your legs. You can also have a look around and visit our sponsors booths and download some brochures.
Optometrists are often concerned about trialling a new toric lens for fear the patient experiences performance that is less satisfactory than their current lens. Astigmats have often trialled numerous lenses in the past without success so are hesitant to try yet another lens. Join Helen Gleave from Alcon and optometrist Elise Pocknee as they discuss how Alcon’s two water surface daily disposable toric lenses aim to help these conversations.
Learning Objective
Understand the technology of Alcon’s PRECISION BALANCE 8|4 toric lens design
Rodenstock this April delivered a new myopia control lens. With a horizontal increase in refractive power on both sides of an optical centre for central imaging, the lens is intended to ensure the appropriate corrective effect and, at the same time, create an image in front of the retina via the peripheral increase in refractive power in the lens. This presentation will outline the research that influenced this design and a study reflecting the efficacy of this type of design. There will also be a description of the research supporting the software platform that has been introduced with a myopia management program.
Learning Objectives:
To understand how the relative peripheral spherical equivalent refraction nasally and temporally may impact upon the development of myopia.
To understand how anatomical asymmetry in the retina in the nasal and temporal regions in terms of cone and ganglion cell density may impact upon the development of myopia.
This is a 15 minute break for you to grab a cuppa and stretch your legs. You can also have a look around and visit our sponsors booths and download some brochures.
This is a 15 minute break for you to grab a cuppa and stretch your legs. You can also have a look around and visit our sponsors booths and download some brochures.
This lecture will investigate the underlying causes and correlations of dry eye disease (DED) and consider what management options are most effective for treating the condition and co-morbidities – specifically Stage 2 to Stage 4 DEWS II management and treatment recommendations. The pathophysiology of dry eye disease and blepharitis will be reviewed and the correlation between effective treatment strategies and patient satisfaction will be considered.
Learning Objectives:
Review the pathophysiology of blepharitis and DED.
Understand effective management strategies for DED and co-morbidities.
Consider the correlation between effective treatment strategies and patient satisfaction and quality of life.
Progressive myopia is always a hot topic in optometry, however, there may be patients who slip through the cracks and don't receive early intervention. This talk will cover the key reasons why we work so hard to treat progressive myopia including the signs and symptoms of pathologcial myopia. There will be discussion around the key methods of assessment including techniques and imaging as well as the most up to date research of treatment options.
Learning Objectives:
Assess and recognise signs of pathological myopia.
Climate change, as a result of global warming, has caused several extreme climatic events in recent years including heatwaves and wildfires. The ocular surface is vulnerable to the ambient environment and to any severe changes in climate, meteorological or air quality variables. This presentation will discuss the types of ocular signs, symptoms and diagnoses to expect in relation to changing climate, meteorological and air quality parameters. Consensus and evidence-based guidelines on how to protect the ocular surface and manage the ocular surface disease will also be discussed.
Learning Objectives:
Explain how climate variables and environmental conditions can affect ocular surface health and function
Apply consensus-based guidelines to protect the ocular surface during extreme climate events
Proactively manage populations which are at greater risk of ocular surface disease during extreme climate events
The session discusses somatic and visually-driven ocular growth, and the application and caution in using ocular growth curves in myopia management.
Learning Objectives:
To be familiar of the primary components in early ocular growth, the impact of such growth on refractive development as well as important clinical implications.
This is a 15 minute break for you to grab a cuppa and stretch your legs. You can also have a look around and visit our sponsors booths and download some brochures.
This is a 15 minute break for you to grab a cuppa and stretch your legs. You can also have a look around and visit our sponsors booths and download some brochures.
This presentation will explore severe keratitis from dry eye disease and the outcomes from the real-world PERSPECTIVE study of Ikervis (ciclosporin 1mg/ml). It will cover diagnosis and treatment options for the condition (including Ikervis), as well as present results from the PERSPECTIVE study and discuss insights which may be applied in an Australian clinical practice setting. The webinar will include practical guidance and case studies to aid in learning.
Learning Objectives:
Identify patients with severe keratitis from dry eye disease.
Choose the most appropriate treatment option for individual patients.
Recall the key outcomes from the real-world PERSPECTIVE study.
Describe the correct use of Ikervis in eligible patients, including the prescribing process.
Optometry is a rapidly changing profession with ever increasing expectations that “standard of care” includes in-depth imaging such as optical coherence tomography (OCT), retinal photos, corneal topography and ocular biometry. Often, the diagnosis of disease is reliant on the results of a variety of these investigations and with so much information at hand, it can take time to sift through it all.
Already, we have access to a variety of integrated software platforms which allow streamlined and integrated viewing of many of these devices. This has the potential to increase diagnostic confidence, promote clinical efficiency and support patient education. As such, it is likely that integrated software platforms with the ability to collate data into user friendly and output rich interfaces will also become the standard of care in the future.
Learning Objectives:
To understand how integrated software systems can increase diagnostic confidence and clinical efficiency.
To understand how integrated software systems can assist in patient education and understanding of their disease.
To understand how Integrated software systems can promote collaborative care and support effective communication between professionals.
