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HARNESSING YOUR SOFT CONTACT LENS SKILLS One Day Seminar on Spherical and Toric Soft Contact Lenses 24 February, 2015 India Vision Institute
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HARNESSING YOUR
SOFT CONTACT LENS
SKILLS
One Day Seminar on Spherical and Toric
Soft Contact Lenses
24 February, 2015
India Vision Institute
Objective
The one day seminar was aimed at imparting important skills to enhance participants’ clinical practice and ensuring
successful contact lens dispensing and patient satisfaction by giving an overview of spherical and soft toric lenses
along with their selection, fitting, dispensing, stabilization techniques and product availability. The seminar also
intended to teach the participants about the benefits of silicone hydrogels, the difference between silicone hydrogels
and hydrogel lenses and demonstrate how the trends in contact lens prescription are inclining towards silicone
hydrogels in recent decades.
Participants
The seminar was attended by 42 participants including practitioners and students. The students were from Bausch
and Lomb School of Optometry-Hyderabad and Hyderabad Central University-Hyderabad. Interns and educators
from SIHR & LC Karigiri Hospital-Vellore and practitioner from Dr Rohatgi's Vision Eye Hospital-Usha Opticals- Kolkata
were also a part of the seminar.
Introduction: Introduction was done by Apoorva Chauhan-Program Officer, India Vision Institute familiarizing
the participants with learning objectives of the seminar.
Facilitators: The seminar was facilitated by Dr Kalika Bandamwar, Dr Nagaraju Konda, Ms Arifa Begum, Mr
Rambabu Putta, Ms Aparna Vadlakonda from the Brien Holden Vision Pvt Ltd India and Mr Srikanth Dumpati
from the L V Prasad Eye Institute.
Topics Covered
Silicone Hydrogels: This topic covered the basic differences between Silicone Hydrogel and Hydrogel contact lenses, benefits of Silicone Hydrogels and the recent trend of prescribing silicone hydrogels. Spherical Contact Lens: This covered the importance of parameter selection in lens fitting, various fitting characteristics (steep, flat and optimal), dispensing and care regime and trouble shooting. Toric Contact Lens: This covered different methods of stabilization techniques and its significance for toric soft CL fitting, selection of toric soft contact lens parameters and finalize the optimal lens, dispensing and care regime and trouble shooting. Multiple choice, open ended and ‘fill in the blanks’ questions were added in between the presentations for the students to have a better understanding of each sessions and also to evaluate.
Seminar Schedule
Time Topic Speaker
10.00 am -10.10 am Welcome Note Ms Apoorva Chauhan
10.10 am -10.30 am An overview of hydrogels & silicone hydrogels Dr Kalika Bandamwar
10.30 am -11.10 am Spherical Soft contact lens selection & contact lens fitting Mr Srikanth Dumpati
11.10 am -11.30 am Tea Break
11.30 am -11.50 am Contact Lens Dispensing Ms Arifa Begum
11.50 am - 12.20 pm Spherical SCL Trouble shooting - Group discussion Dr Nagaraju Konda
12.20 am - 01.00pm Test your knowledge – SCL Mr Rambabu Putta
01.00pm - 02.00 pm Lunch
02.00pm - 02.30 pm Toric SCL stabilization techniques Mr Srikanth Dumpati
02.30pm - 03.00 pm Toric soft contact lens selection & fitting Dr Nagaraju Konda
03.00pm - 03.30 pm Toric Soft Contact Lens trouble shooting - Group discussion Ms Arifa Begum
03.30pm - 04.00 pm Test your knowledge – Toric SCL Ms Aparna Vadlakonda
04.00pm - 04.20 pm Tea Break
04.20pm - 04.40 pm Spherical & Toric soft CL - Product availability Mr Srikanth Dumpati
04.40pm - 05.00 pm Discussion and Conclusion Dr Kalika Bandamwar
Participant’s Details
S No Name of the participant E-Mail ID’s
1 Anupriya N
2 Christy Kirubai
3 Monisha.S
4 Olichitra.N
5 Paulson.P
6 Pritee.M
7 Sathish Kumar
8 Eswer K [email protected]
9 Badavath Laxman [email protected]
10 M Shravani mididoddishravani@gmailcom
11 Sri Vidyasagar [email protected]
12 Md Salman Sarkar [email protected]
13 G.Grace [email protected]
14 G.Shirisha [email protected]
15 Kanteti Moulica [email protected]
16 S.Sumithra [email protected]
17 Mohammed Abdul Rasheed [email protected]
18 Sandeep Rohatgi [email protected]
19 Ayeshaa Jabeen
20 Asiya Jabeen
21 Januwada Manideepak
22 Sania Sulthana
23 M Nivedha Christabel
24 Mohammad Mansoor
25 P Jnana Prasanna
26 Syed Md Raza Hussain
27 Chukka Tarun Kumar
28 Shravya Sri Durgam
29 P. Sri Lalitha Nimeshika
30 Femy Priya Varghese
31 Yaparla Geethika
32 Kammari Priyanka
33 Paidimukkala Hemalatha
34 Dumpala Sunila
35 Rapole Shruthi
36 Suragani Sathish
37 Y. Sri Sai Shashank
38 K Anitha
39 K. Sai Durga Manoj
40 G. Aparna [email protected]
41 E. Priyanka [email protected]
42 K. Ramya [email protected]
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