More than 1,500 delegates attended this years Specsavers' Professional Advancement Conference, the biggest to date. Optician selects some clinical pearls which delegates could take back to their practices
Here are a few key points gleaned from a sample of the presentations which may well prove useful.
Discs
Dr Stewart Gillan (specialty registrar in ophthalmology, Dundee) described the various ways of examining and interpreting the optic disc, beginning by establishing that optic disc assessment is not easy. The accuracy in diagnosing disease from the disc is around 80.5 per cent for ophthalmologists and in some studies has been as low as 50 per cent. Machines, such as the OCT, offer an objective approach but even they struggle with some disc presentations.
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