Purpose: Audio-Digest Foundation CME/CE activities are designed to provide its learners – physicians and other healthcare professionals – with continuing education that will help identify clinical problems in their practice settings, provide contentMorePurpose: Audio-Digest Foundation CME/CE activities are designed to provide its learners – physicians and other healthcare professionals – with continuing education that will help identify clinical problems in their practice settings, provide content to help to solve those problems, and increase their application of knowledge to practice.Audio-Digest Ophthalmology is specifically designed to provide the participant with up-to-date and accurate information on diagnosis and management in the major subspecialty areas of practice, including, but not limited to:AllergyCataract surgery and intraocular lensesCorneal and external diseaseExtraocular-muscle dysfunctionGlaucomaNeuro-ophthalmologyOrbital diseaseOcular oncologyPediatric ophthalmology and strabismusRefractive surgeryRetinal and macular diseaseSystemic and autoimmune disordersEducational ObjectivesThe goal of this program is to improve the practice of ophthalmology.
After hearing and assimilating this program, the participant will be better able to:1. Recognize the causes of potentially treatable blindness in children and discuss the effectiveness of povidone iodine in its prevention.2. Identify common ocular viral infections and manage them with appropriate diagnostic and therapeutic agents.3. Summarize the recent trends in litigation involving refractive surgeries and employ actions and behaviors to avoid legal claims.4. Implement effective strategies to manage the potential for itraoperative floppy iris syndrome in patients receiving medications such as selective α blockers.5.
Choose the appropriate treatment and duration of treatment for amblyopia.