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The American Academy of Optometry meeting is always a useful way to spot trends in equipment and instrumentation that may eventually hit the UK market. This is particularly true for ophthalmic instrumentation, but less so for other products, notably contact lenses. The very different US contact lens market often means lenses are launched in Europe well in advance of the US.
Instruments increasingly familiar to the UK were noticeably high profile this year. OCTs, for example, are now standard pieces of kit in most US practices and had a significant presence in the exhibition hall. They were also responsible for a glut of papers looking at OCT assessment of eye disease. Similarly, the MacuScope is growing in popularity in the US, as is the Notal Foresee PHP (see page 37). Both are seen in practices that specialise in visual impairment and macular degeneration. The iCare tonometer - popular in the UK among domiciliary groups because there is no need to use an anaesthetic - had just received FDA approval and was on display and drawing much interest among US practitioners.
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