What’s new Stateside?

As always, one of the highlights of the annual American Academy of Optometry conference, held last month, was the extensive exhibition. In the past, this has offered an opportunity to see equipment, such as OCT and SLO instruments, that would later become standard in Europe, way in advance. The scope of the exhibition is too wide to cover in such a short space, and embraces the standards (frames, lenses, contact lenses and care systems), the controversial (see www.glassesforthecolor blind.com for their range of lens filters for the colour defective), the advanced (surgical equipment, drugs and advanced therapeutic management systems, such as amniotic membranes for severe dry eye) and an array of gadgets and gizmos. It is on the latter that I will focus in this short review, in particular, those that are unlikely to have received much exposure in the UK as yet.

Portable Kit