Cornea results from ASCRS Clinical Survey 2013, Boston 24-27 April 2014 - dry eye

[littlemermaid]

http://ewreplay.org/ Christopher E. Starr, MD, FACS 'Cornea results from the ASCRS Clinical Survey 2013' video for Eyeworld.
What is your eye doc thinking? Some questions put to eye surgeons from the survey (response summarised in the video):

Has lasik increased post-operative dry eyes?
What % needed further treatment beyond artificial tears?
Who has heard of Delphi-DEWS guidelines?
What % of ocular surface disease patients have the following conditions (listed)?
Do you believe aqueous deficient dry eye is more common than evaporative?
Is ocular surface management critical to cataract and intraocular lens patients?
Do you think dry eye patients are 'difficult'?
Who uses dry eye diagnostics and which ones?
Who uses newer dry eye diagnostics and which ones?
Who thinks an adenoviral detector is useful?
Who thinks branded medications are important for outcomes?

Conclusion: Younger docs embrace ocular surface dysfunction, diagnostics and management. It's surprising some don't. Doctors are not dismissing newer diagnostics, and are maybe overconfident on diagnosing eg adenoviral conjunctivitis, but want to see if they work.

(Eyeworld - news magazine of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, http://www.eyeworld.org/Twitter Eyeworld@EWNews)

[tiff]

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[littlemermaid]

Update on ASCRS clinical survey on dry eye 2013, 2014, 2015 by Christopher Starr, MD http://ewreplay.org/content/wio-2014?v=3721797603001 (type 'dry eye' in the search box) 'there is a renaissance of dry eye, and young doctors and women are embracing this more than we [older doctors] do'. He lists the newer diagnostic tests, including Sjo for Sjogrens, which has been underdiagnosed 'we can save lives even'.