ESCRS Winter Meeting

BELGRADE, Serbia — At the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons winter meeting, Marie-José Tassignon, MD, PhD, explores the role of a malformation at the level of the posterior capsule in a specific type of pediatric cataract.

BELGRADE, Serbia — At the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons winter meeting, Matteo Piovella, MD, speaks about the European Medicines Agency action plan against antimicrobial resistance and the need to modify current practices.

BELGRADE, Serbia — At the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons winter meeting, Ferenc Kuhn, MD, PhD, explains why the management of traumatic cataract requires the skills or the cooperation of a vitreoretinal surgeon.

BELGRADE, Serbia — At the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons winter meeting, Vikentia Katsanevaki, MD, PhD, speaks about the importance of differentiating between infectious and noninfectious forms of keratitis after LASIK.

BELGRADE, Serbia — At the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons winter meeting, Osama Ibrahim, MD, talks about his experience with more than 20,000 ReLEx SMILE procedures (Carl Zeiss Meditec), a comparative study between femtoLASIK and SMILE, and the combination of SMILE with corneal cross-linking.

BELGRADE, Serbia — At the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons winter meeting, José Güell, MD, speaks about the importance of careful evaluation and treatment of the ocular surface before cataract and refractive procedures.

BELGRADE, Serbia — Due to the relatively high rates of posterior capsule opacification reported with hydrophilic acrylic IOLs, companies are gradually converting to hydrophobic IOLs.

BELGRADE, Serbia — The last symposium of the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons winter meeting dealt with stress management during cataract surgery. Oliver Findl, MD, gives an overview of the most interesting presentations and discusses what he has learned to make surgery better and less stressful.

BELGRADE, Serbia – Extended depth of focus IOLs are gaining wide acceptance. At the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons winter meeting, ESCRS president Béatrice Cochener, MD, PhD, speaks about their advantages, best indications and drawbacks. 

BELGRADE, Serbia — Quantification of surgical stress showed how experience affects emotional control and physiological parameters such as heart rate and breathing rate. Also, in beginner surgeons, stress progressively decreases throughout the day as they perform subsequent operations.