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WAILEA, Hawaii — To avoid the difficulty of treating infected total joint replacements, a speaker said orthopedic surgeons would be wise to use dilute betadine lavage intraoperatively as an “ounce of prevention.”

Once upon a time in Ozthalmology, the yellow brick road to treatment was lined by nothing but bottles of artificial tears and — yikes — Visine. Everybody and nobody was an eye doctor who treated dry eye back then because everything worked and did not work just about the same for dry eye. I used to send DED patients to the pharmacy with advice that was equally colorful and vague. “Go buy some artificial tears. Get the most expensive ones or the cheapest. Buy the biggest box or the smallest one. I really like purple.