"This proposed legislation puts the health and well-being of millions of Floridians at risk. This bill would grant broad and unprecedented surgical privileges to optometrists who are not medical doctors, never attended medical school, and who are certainly not adequately trained to perform scalpel surgery, laser surgery, or prescribe narcotics.
News from the FSO
The Academy and 60 other ophthalmic societies, including FSO, have issued new, more patient-centric guidelines for postoperative co-management of ophthalmic procedures.The Comprehensive Guidelines for the Co-Management of Ophthalmic Postoperative Care contains substantive changes to existing guidelines based on over six months of thoughtful review by an Academy-led Task Force on Co-Management Principles, the Academy Council and Board of Trustees.
If you have a child or a grandchild under the age of five, getting him or her a vision screening is imperative, according to a West Palm Beach eye doctor.
Dr. David Cano is a member of the Florida Society of Ophthalmology and Chairman of the For Eye Care Foundation, which is the Society's charitable arm.
The Florida Society of Ophthalmology (FSO) coordinated free pediatric vision screenings in Miami Saturday, resulting in more than 15 percent of children screened requiring follow-up care. Read More
Florida Senate Sees Pediatric Vision Screening a Priority
As consumers begin to plan their Halloween costumes, the American Academy of Ophthalmology is launching an aggressive, multimedia education campaign highlighting the dangers of decorative contact lenses obtained without a prescription. The effort was spurred in part by a Council Advisory Recommendation and ongoing member reports about patients treated for decorative lens-related injuries and infections.
FSO members have special access to download slides and recordings from the Masters in Ophthalmology 2011 Annual Meeting. Please use this link:www.mdeye.org/media/2011 and you will be directed to the FSO community login page. Please enter your username and password to begin viewing the slides and listening to audio recordings of the sessions from the Masters in Ophthalmology 2011 Annual Meeting.
The Florida Society of Ophthalmology (FSO) is proud to be honored as the 2011 recipient of the American Academy of Ophthalmology's State Affairs Star Award. The FSO was given this special award for its role in developing the informed consent form for cataract.
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) today announced it has reinstated bevicizumab (Avastin) as an option to treat wet AMD. The VA now will permit one patient dose per manufacturer's vial of Avastin. On Sept. 2, the VA said it would cease ophthalmic use of Avastin pending an internal investigation into infections in its facilities. The VA has determined that the adverse events were not related to the drug itself.