REFRACTIVE SURGERY DIDACTIC COURSE
FRIDAY 4TH FEBRUARY

Time: 08.00 - 17.00

Cost: €250

The Refractive Surgery Didactic Course gives an overview of various techniques currently available and covers the established techniques in detail. Participants will receive a certificate of attendance for completing the course and a CD-ROM of the course presentations.

Surgical skills training courses on refractive procedures will also take place during the Meeting.

You must be registered for the Meeting in order to participate in this course.

PART 1    
MODERATORS
J. Krumeich GERMANY
D.S. Siganos GREECE
  08.00

Corneal topography and IOL power calculation
C. Roberts USA

  08.25 Patient selection and preoperative preparation
D.S. Siganos GREECE
  08.40

Incisional and coagulative corneal procedures:
Principles, technique and results

T. Kohnen GERMANY

  08.50 Lasers in refractive surgery
I. Pallikaris GREECE
  09.05 Overview of microkeratomes
J. Krumeich GERMANY
  09.25 LASIK - surgical technique
M.C. Knorz GERMANY
  09.45 Break
  10.05

Surface Ablation Techniques (SATs):
Surgical technique

C.Lohmann USA

  10.25 Results of corneal refractive surgery
D. Epstein SWITZERLAND
  10.45 Overview of phakic IOLs
A. Marinho PORTUGAL
  11.05 Refractive Lens Exchange
E. Rosen UK
  11.25 Intrastromal corneal implants
J. Colin FRANCE
  11.35 Questions & answers
  12.30

Break


PART 2
   
MODERATORS
A. Marinho PORTUGAL
C. Roberts USA
  13.30 Quality of vision evaluation
P. Artal SPAIN
  13.50 Biomechanics of the cornea
C. Roberts USA
 
  14.10 Refractive reoperations and enhancements
J.L. Güell SPAIN
 
  14.30 Customised ablational procedures
J.L. Alió SPAIN
 
  14.45 Break  
  15.05 Non-optical complications of LASIK and corneal surgery
M.C Knorz GERMANY
  15.30 Optical complications of refractive surgery
V. Katsanevaki GREECE
 
  15.40 Presbyopia
D.S. Siganos GREECE
 
  16.00 Complications of phakic IOLs
A. Marinho PORTUGAL
 
  16.20 Questions & answers  
  17.00

End of Course