• Join Dr. med. vet. Claudia Busse DipECVO, CertVOphthal for three 2-hour online sessions
• Comprehensive notes to downloaded
• Self-assessment quizzes to ‘release’ your 8 hours CPD certification (don’t worry, you can take them more than once if you don’t quite hit the mark first time)
• A whole year’s access to recorded sessions for reviewing key points
• Superb value for money – learn without travelling
• Watch the recordings on your iPad!
• This Mini Series was originally broadcast in September 2019!

Programme

Surgery of the eyelids

This webinar will explain the basic rules and requirments for eyelid surgery and will help to create the ideal set-up for successful ocular adnexal surgery. Different surgical techniques oft he eyelids will be explained with many photographs and drawings to help understand the procedures.

What you’ll learn:

• Surgical instruments and suture material for eyelid surgery
• Basic principles of eyelid surgery
• Surgical techniques for ectopic cilia, neoplasia and traumata of the eyelids
• Surgical techniques for makroblepharon and ectropion
• Surgical techniques for entropion (temporary correction)

Surgery of the eyelids and conjunctiva

This webinar will complete the surgical techniques for entropion surgeries, focusing on permanent techniques. Basic rules and requirements for conjunctival surgery are explained before specific surgical techniques will be shown in detail.

What you’ll learn:

• Surgical techniques for entropion (permanent correction)
• Surgery of the conjunctiva
• Temporary tarsorrhaphy
• Third eyelid flap
• Replacement of a prolapsed third eyelid gland
• Correction of eversion or inversion of the third eyelid
• Conjunctival pedicle grafts

Surgery of the cornea and principles of intraocular surgery

This webinar will explain the basic rules and requirements for corneal and intraocular surgery. Different corneal surgeries are explained and demonstrated in photographs and drawings. Intraocular surgery and its indications are explained so that clinicians can advise their clients what to expect when such a surgery becomes necessary.

What you’ll learn:

• Surgical instruments and suture material for corneal surgery
• Basic principles of corneal surgery
• Surgical techniques: removal of corneal foreing bodies, closing corneal lacerations, keratotomy, lamellar keratectomy, stabilizing stromal corneal defects
• Principles of intraocular surgery
• Surgical techniques: lens surgery for lens luxation and cataracts