Refractive Surgery

The instruction course aims to cover the wide spectrum of latest trends in refractive surgery. Various modalities in refractive surgery will be discussed including femtosecond blade free LASIK and its latest improvement, the flap free LASIK available as SMILE.

Introduction to essentials of evaluating a refractive surgery candidate- counselling,Topography, placido based, elevation topology, different Microkeratomes, post operative management.

This instruction course focuses on decoding unhappy patients post surgery in a problem based learning approach. The course highlights routinely seen post operative scenarios of unhappy patients after a seemingly successful surgery.

The advances in ophthalmology have made it possible to make our valuable patients independent of glasses.

Laser Corneal surgery like LASIK & PRK along with Lens based Phakic IOL procedures have become standardized modalities to treat Refractive errors with excellent results.

As popularity and acceptability of the Phakic IOL grows among ophthalmologists,
doctors are bound to face some tricky situations for which they need answers which are no-where to be found in text books.

Presbyopia is holy grail of refractive surgery! As the baby boomer generation is ageing, there is an increase in demand for presbyopia reversal. Continuous innovations and research is getting translated into development of new techniques!Refractive surgeons of today are learning new methods to add to their surgical armamenterium.

Course will detail on all conceivable controversies in Refractive Surgery with management guidelines, clinical illustrations and video base.

The Masters in the field of Phakic IOL come together in this video assisted course with its interactive panel discussion and challenging situation scenarios in Phakic IOLs.