Scientific Program
Video Live Surgery
No simultaneous translation
Thursday, June 14th, 2018, 04.00 - 06.30 p.m. (in 3D)
Friday, June 15th, 2018, 08.00 - 10.00 a.m.
Ophthalmic surgeons present surgical techniques from the following subspecialties:
- Cataract surgery
- Corneal surgery
- Cosmetic plastic surgery
- Eyelid surgery
- Glaucoma surgery
- Refractive surgery
- Vitreoretinal surgery
Main sessions
Thursday, June 14th, 2018, 08.30 a.m. – Saturday, June 16th, 2018, 04.35 p.m.
- General session: Hall of fame and honorary lectures
Simultaneous translation German-English - Cataract surgery
- Corneal surgery
- Forum: ocular surgery in developing countries
- Glaucoma surgery
- Orbita, eye lid, lacrimal duct surgery
- Refractive surgery
- Vitreoretinal surgery
DOC – ISRS/AAO Symposium
No simultaneous translation
Friday, June 15th, 2018, 01.00 - 06.15 p.m.
Instruction courses
No simultaneous translation
CATARACT SURGERY
- Advanced phacoemulsification I
- Advanced phacoemulsification II
- Cataract Surgery meats Retina NEW
- Complication management in cataract surgery
- Complication management in cataract surgery – interactive video clinic with panel- and audience discussion
- Correction of astigmatism using toric IOL: what is essential for a successful implantation? Pearls, tricks, tips
- Image quality of the eye after phacoemulsification
- MIOL and monovision: Ways to achieve spectacle independency after cataract surgery
- Phaco-techniques: “divide and conquer”, « chop » or « rotation »
- Postoperative Endophthalmitis: How to recognize and how to treat?
- Problems in biometry: challenges in the calculation of the correct intraocular lens
- Raytracing as alternative to IOL Calculation
- Toric IOL
- When phaco is no more possible
GLAUCOMA SURGERY
- Decision trees for escalation of glaucoma therapy
- Glaucoma surgery – step-by-step demonstration and explication
- Gonioscopy
- Imaging in glaucoma diagnostics: HRT®, GDx®, OCT and digital photography
- Lasers in glaucoma surgery
- Minimally invasive glaucoma surgery
- Optimizing filtering surgery in glaucoma: a video-discourse
- Therapy of complex glaucomas
REFRACTIVE SURGERY
- Advanced laser – refractive lens surgery with femtosecond lasers (course is presented in english)
- Anti-astigmatic Keratotomy
- KRC advanced course
- KRC Basic course I – refractive implants
- KRC Basic course II – refractive laser surgery and PTK
- Monovision – the ideal correction of presbyopia?
- Refractive surgery with multifocal IOL as “IGEL”
- SMILE – 3rd generation of refractive surgery
- Toric intraocular lenses
VITREORETINAL SURGERY
- Advanced course for photodynamic therapy (PDT) and for participation in selective agreements for IVOM (duration 4,5 hrs)
- Basic course for photodynamic therapy (PDT) and for participation in selective agreements for IVOM (duration 4,5 hrs)
- Complications in vitreoretinal surgery
- How may I help patients with floaters?
- Intravitreal surgical drug application (“IVOM”)
- Intravitreal therapeutic strategies for neovascular macular degeneration – an update
- Laser coagulation for vascular disease of the fundus
- Macular hemorrhage in ARMD: what to do?
- Macular surgery: complication management for beginners and advanced surgeons
- Modern optic coherence tomography (OCT): clinical applications, sources of errors, 3D Visualization, recent developments
- OCT: practical basics and tips based on case examples
- OCT: Update in diagnostic and therapy 2020
- Prevention and therapy for ARMD
- Prophylaxis of retinal detachment: what, when, how?
- Tumor course 2018: ophthalmic oncology – a systemic approach?
- Update intravitreal therapy of ARMD: current strategy and optimization of treatment results
- Uveitis 2018
- Vitreolysis for the treatment of floaters NEW
CORNEAL SURGERY
- Corneal ectasia (Course is presented in english)
- Disesases of the corneal surface – novel therapeutic concepts
- Lamellar keratoplasty
ORBIT, LACRIMAL DUCTS, EYELIDS
- Basal cell carcinoma: current guidelines and new therapeutic options
- Cosmetic applications of botulinum toxin A in the ophthalmic practice
- Esthetic eyelid surgery – blepharoplasty of upper and lower eyelids
- Esthetic surgery of the eyelids and the periorbital region
- Ptosis surgery
- Reconstructions of large lid defects
- Update on tear duct surgery NEW
STRABOLOGY
- Tips and tricks for interested strabologic surgeons – more than combined horizontal surgeries Various
VARIA
- Management of seemingly hopeless situations – what to do if nothing works anymore NEW
- Ophthalmology in developing countries
- Pediatric ophthalmology
- Practical course on retinoscopy
- Surgery at its limit – borderline cases NEW
- Traumatology of the eye
- Unwanted surgical results – malpractice or fate? An interactive course
Master class-Courses
- Biometry & aspheric intracular lenses NEW
- Eyelid surgery NEW
- Medical Management of Glaucoma: Indication, Major Drug Classer, side effects NEW
- PRK / LASIK / SMILE, phakic intraocular lenses and refractive lens exchange NEW
- Toric and multi-focal lenses in cataract surgery – when, where, what?
Surgical Skills Training Courses
- Glaucoma Surgery: stents NEW
Wetlabs
No simultaneous translation
CATARACT SURGERY
- Eyesi Cataract Surgery
- Modern cataract surgery techniques in developing countries
- Phacoemulsification
- Rescue, reposition, repair – surgical strategies for conservation and replacement of dislocated intraocular lenses
GLAUCOMA SURGERY
- Glaucoma surgery – surgical basis techniques
- MIGS & MAX-Glaucoma Surgery
REFRACTIVE SURGERY
- Refractive implants
VITREORETINAL SURGERY
- 23/25 gauge vitrectomy
- Eyesi – pars plana vitrectomy
- Pars plana vitrectomy
VARIOUS
- Ocular traumatology – management of penetrating eye injuries
- Regional anesthesia at the eye
CORNEA
- Anterior lamellar keratoplasty
- Posterior lamellar keratoplasty
Courses for residents
- Anesthesia for Ophthalmic Surgery NEW
- Basics in ultrasound diagnostics and biometry
- Formal training in ophthalmic surgery
- Guidelines minor surgery for the resident
Wetlabs for residents
- Breakfast of administrative manager, Friday, June 15th 2018
- Formal training in ophthalmic surgery
- Suture course in eyelid surgery
Anesthesia symposium
Contact lens symposium
Diagnostic council
IGEL-Symposium
Management in hospital and practice
- Breakfast of administrative manager, Friday, June 15th 2018
Seminar for the ophthalmologist’s practice
Strabology symposium
Symposium for patient-driven healthcare
Therapeutic council
Ophthalmic assistants
CONTINUED EDUCATION FOR OPHTHALMIC ASSISTANTS
MAIN SUBJECTS
SEMINARS
WETLABS FOR OPHTHALMIC ASSISTANTS
Satellite program
Friday June 15th, 2018
- DOC summer party
- Reception after the general session
