Retinal Lasers
Following this course, residents should have a good understanding of the techniques used in various retinal laser procedures such as laser retinopexy, panretinal photocoagulation, and focal laser.
Objectives:
1. Describe the indications for performing limbal relaxing incisions at the time of cataract surgery.
2. Describe and demonstrate the use of the AMO LRI online calculator.
3. Perform corneal marking using the Mendez ring marking set.
4. Perform limbal relaxing incisions utilizing the guarded LRI knife.
Also please include this link to the AMO LRI calculator - http://www.lricalculator.com/.
Thanks!
Ian
Ian Conner MD PhD
UPMC Eye Center
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Our mission on Monday, July 15th will be to the Birmingham Clinic in the South Side neighborhood in partnership with the UPMC Program for Health Care to Underserved Populations. Birmingham Clinic serves a diverse community of adults and children including immigrants. We often need Spanish translators at Birmingham Clinic. Click here for Google directions
Our mission on Saturday July 20 will be to the 9th Street Clinic in McKeesport in partnership with the McKeesport Hospital Foundation. The 9th street clinic serves a community of uninsured adults many of whom require primary and eye care to help them stay productive in the community. You can read more about the 9th street clinic here. Click here for Google directions
Our mission on Monday, August 19th will be to the Birmingham Clinic in the South Side neighborhood in partnership with the UPMC Program for Health Care to Underserved Populations. Birmingham Clinic serves a diverse community of adults and children including immigrants. We often need Spanish translators at Birmingham Clinic. Click here for Google directions
Our mission on Monday, September 16th will be to the Birmingham Clinic in the South Side neighborhood in partnership with the UPMC Program for Health Care to Underserved Populations. Birmingham Clinic serves a diverse community of adults and children including immigrants. We often need Spanish translators at Birmingham Clinic. Click here for Google directions
Our mission on Friday, October 18th will be to Cornerstone Care in Greensboro, PA. Cornerstone Care serves a largely rural community of patients in an area that is known for coal mining and glassmaking. Our focus at Greensboro is detection of diabetic retinopathy. Our Greensboro mission will be followed the next day by a mission to neighboring Waynesburg. GES members who want to stay overnight will be fed and lodged courtesy of Southwest PA AHEC.
Click here for Google directions
Our mission on Saturday, October 9th will be to Cornerstone Care in Waynesburg, PA. Cornerstone Care serves a largely rural community of patients in an area that is known for coal mining and glassmaking. Our focus at Waynesburg is detection of diabetic retinopathy. Our Waynesburg mission will be preceded by a mission to Greensboro the day before. GES members who want to stay overnight will be fed and lodged courtesy of Southwest PA AHEC.
Click here for Google directions
Our mission on Monday, October 21st will be to the Birmingham Clinic in the South Side neighborhood in partnership with the UPMC Program for Health Care to Underserved Populations. Birmingham Clinic serves a diverse community of adults and children including immigrants. We often need Spanish translators at Birmingham Clinic. Click here for Google directions
Our mission on Friday December 6th will be to the Verland Residential Treatment Center in Sewickley. Verland is a non-profit family of person-centered, community homes and services supporting over 200 individuals with intellectual disabilities, many of whom have multiple physical challenges.Directions to the Verland facility can be found at this link.
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7:00am Retinal Lasers Retinal LasersFollowing this course, residents should have a good understanding of the techniques used in various retinal laser procedures such as laser retinopexy, panretinal photocoagulation, and focal laser. |
7:00am Eye Muscle Surgery Technique and Nasal Lacrimal Duct Probing/Irrigation/Silicone Intubation Technique Eye Muscle Surgery Technique and Nasal Lacrimal Duct Probing/Irrigation/Silicone Intubation Techniqueobjectives:
- understand anatomy of the extraocular muscles - become familiar with the surgical instruments frequently used in eye muscle surgery - become familiar with the general surgical technique for a recession or resection of the extraocular muscles
- understand the anatomy of the nasolacrimal duct system - become familiar with the surgical instruments frequently used in nasalacrimal duct probing - become familiar with the general surgical technique for a nasolacrimal duct probing and irrigation +/- silicone intubation |
7:00am 5:30pm Phaco Wet Lab Phaco Wet LabPhaco Lab Learning Objectives 1. Phaco incisions - side port(s) and main wound (3 plane vs single plane clear corneal incision) Proper placement of incisions for surgical strategy. Wound of appropriate wound length. 2. ECCE incision (3 plane scleral tunnel) Perform proper conjunctival cutdown. Make tunneled incision into the cornea and enter AC using keratome. 3. Capsulorhexis (continuous curvilinear and can opener) Ability to perform capsulorhexis using both techniques, and for the CCC, using either cystotome or utrata forceps. 4. Phacoemulsification Proper use and settings for phacoemulsification (grooving and chopping modes). Materials • 10-0 nylon sutures on side cutting needles (if needed to close wounds). • Non-locking needle drivers • Toothed forceps (0.12 preferred) • Westcott scissors • Vannas scissor • Crescent blade • Side port blade • Keratome • Human eye bank, pig, or goat eyes. |
7:00am UPMC Presents: Papers to Practice UPMC Presents: Papers to PracticeOn Friday June 7 at 7am in BST 120 please join us for the new lecture series Papers to Practice in which UPMC faculty present their newly published research that can influence your clinical practice. This month featuring, Thomas Friberg, MD and Igor Nasonkin, PhD. Dr. Friberg - "Macular Degeneration" Dr. Nasonkin - "Retinal Cell Plasticity and Stem Cell Therapies for Treating Blindness"
8:00am Fundamentals of Surgical Instruments Fundamentals of Surgical InstrumentsLearning Objectives
· Review common types, characteristics, and proper use of ophthalmic microsurgical needles and suture material · Review common types and use of ophthalmic surgical instruments
Preparation · Please read or view the following: o Macsai chapter 2: Needles, Sutures, and Instruments o http://www.amblersurgical.com/store/category.cfm/cid:415_Ophthalmic_Instruments/
Attached Files:10:00am Verland Residential Treatment Center Verland Residential Treatment CenterOur mission on Friday June 7th will be to the Verland Residential Treatment Center in Sewickley. Verland is a non-profit family of person-centered, community homes and services supporting over 200 individuals with intellectual disabilities, many of whom have multiple physical challenges.Directions to the Verland facility can be found at this link. |
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8:30am Louis J. Fox Center for Vision Restoration 3rd Annual Conference
Louis J. Fox Center for Vision Restoration 3rd Annual Conference
Join top researchers and clinicians in the fields of regenerative medicine and ophthalmology and hear about the latest developments and breakthroughs for restoring impaired vision. For more details please go to the Fox Center website. |
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8:00am Vision Research Day Vision Research DayThe UPMC Eye Center will hold its annual Vision Research Day on June 14, 2013 at the University Club. The Susruta Lecture will be given by Rosa Lynn Pinkus, PhD. Dr. Rosa Lynn Pinkus is the Associate Director of the Center for Bioethics and Health Law at the University of Pittsburgh. She is also a Professor of Medicine and Neurosurgery, and the Director of the Consortium Ethics Program. As a historian, she received both her M.A. (1973) and Ph.D. (1975) from the State University of New York at Buffalo. In 1978, she completed a fellowship in the Medical Humanities at Penn State Hershey, and joined the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in 1980. Since arriving at the University, Dr. Pinkus gained extensive experience as an ethics consultant, and taught applied ethics for over twenty years in both the medical school, and most recently, the School of Engineering. The full agenda is attached. |
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6:00pm GES Mission at Squirrel Hill Health Center GES Mission at Squirrel Hill Health CenterOur mission on Tuesday, June 11th will be to the Squirrel Hill Health Center. SQHC serves diverse community of patients including immigrants. We often need Nepali, Spanish and Russian translators at SQHC. Click here for Google directions. Please note the new location. |
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5:30pm LRI Wet Lab LRI Wet LabObjectives:
1. Describe the indications for performing limbal relaxing incisions at the time of cataract surgery. 2. Describe and demonstrate the use of the AMO LRI online calculator. 3. Perform corneal marking using the Mendez ring marking set. 4. Perform limbal relaxing incisions utilizing the guarded LRI knife. Also please include this link to the AMO LRI calculator - http://www.lricalculator.com/.
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Ian Conner MD PhD UPMC Eye Center
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