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DUETTE TUTORIALS

SynergEyes, Inc., has expanded its collection of doctor resources with the release of eight video tutorials for its Duette Progressive, a lens for astigmatic presbyopes. The videos, each only a few minutes in length, are available through the “video tutorials” link on the company’s professional site.

Created to assist in the dispensing and fitting of the Duette Progressive lens, the step-by-step tutorials provide information on lens design, lens dispensing, optimizing fit, optimizing near vision, optimizing distance vision, optimizing patient compliance, a lens calculator, and a fitting guide.

The videos address the vision optimization made possible by the recent expansion of lens parameters to 0.1mm increments, which facilitate even more precise alignment fitting, creating optimal centration and clear, stable vision at all distances for even more patients, the company notes.

INFO: synergeyes.com/professional

AOA POSTS ONLINE AMD COURSE

The first online AMD continuing education (CE) course is available on EyeLearn, the American Optometric Association’s (AOA) online learning resource program. The course contains two modules; the first focuses on vision rehabilitation and the second on nutrition. The two-part course is worth two hours of accredited CE. The course is sponsored by a grant from Kemin and offered to AOA members at no additional cost.

The course work is designed to help bolster clinical knowledge in the latest management for patients with AMD, with an emphasis on nutritional considerations.

In addition to the course on AMD, AOA members can now find hours of comprehensive CE recordings from Optometry’s Meeting 2014 on EyeLearn.

Included in AOA membership at no additional cost, the new menu of CE selections includes nearly 100 classes, presentations, and debates from this year’s Optometry’s Meeting in Philadelphia.

INFO: aoa.org/eyelearn

CLINICAL CONTACT LENS INFO

Alcon has launched a web-based “Guide to Clinical Contact Lens Management” for contact lens practitioners. The guide provides a compact summary of signs, symptoms, and management options of a broad range of anterior segment and contact lens-related conditions.

The easy-to-use guide has been updated to include more conditions, images, and videos than previous print versions. Conditions are easily searched by anterior segment anatomy, including cornea, limbus, conjunctiva, and lid, or by the accompanying signs and symptoms. There is also a section specific to contact lens fitting complications.

The guide is edited by Lyndon Jones, O.D., Ph.D., director of the Centre for Contact Lens Research at the University of Waterloo School of Optometry & Vision Science.

INFO: myalcon.com