Acquisition of knowledge and skills in contact lens fitted on regular or irregular corneas. Evaluation and management of physical and physiological ocular reactions induced by contact lens wear.
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2. CONTACT LENS MANAGEMENT DURING PANDEMIC INFECTION
3. SOFT CONTACT LENSES: Soft toric lenses; Silicone rubber lenses.
4. RIGID AND HYBRID CONTACT LENSES: Toric and asymmetrical corneal rigid lenses. Scleral rigid lenses. Hybrid lenses.
5. CONTACT LENSES IN THE LABORATORY: Parameters checking and quality inspection of rigid and soft contact lenses; Notes on modification of rigid contact lenses parameters.
6. THE SPECIALIST INSTRUMENTAL EXAMINATION OF THE EYE SURFACE: Corneal esthesiometry; Corneal pachymetry; Specular microscopy; In vivo confocal microscopy; Anterior segment tomography.
7. COMPLICATIONS INDUCED BY CONTACT LENSES WEAR: Classification; Quantification.
8. HIGH ORDER ABERRATIONS CONTROL: Induced by corneal ectasias, by refractive surgery and by keratoplasty.
9. ADVANCED APPLICATIONS: Continuous wear; Correction of presbyopia; Tinted contact lenses; Infancy; orthokeratology; Control of myopic progression: contact lenses vs to other procedures; Therapeutic use; Wear of contact lenses in conditions of environmental stress.
10. PROBLEM SOLVING: Clinical contact lens cases.
ANON. A GUIDE TO OVERNIGHT ORTHOKERATOLOGY, [BOSTON MATERIALS, 2010].
Programme
1. AFTER CARE: Protocol; Comfort management.2. CONTACT LENS MANAGEMENT DURING PANDEMIC INFECTION
3. SOFT CONTACT LENSES: Soft toric lenses; Silicone rubber lenses.
4. RIGID AND HYBRID CONTACT LENSES: Toric and asymmetrical corneal rigid lenses. Scleral rigid lenses. Hybrid lenses.
5. CONTACT LENSES IN THE LABORATORY: Parameters checking and quality inspection of rigid and soft contact lenses; Notes on modification of rigid contact lenses parameters.
6. THE SPECIALIST INSTRUMENTAL EXAMINATION OF THE EYE SURFACE: Corneal esthesiometry; Corneal pachymetry; Specular microscopy; In vivo confocal microscopy; Anterior segment tomography.
7. COMPLICATIONS INDUCED BY CONTACT LENSES WEAR: Classification; Quantification.
8. HIGH ORDER ABERRATIONS CONTROL: Induced by corneal ectasias, by refractive surgery and by keratoplasty.
9. ADVANCED APPLICATIONS: Continuous wear; Correction of presbyopia; Tinted contact lenses; Infancy; orthokeratology; Control of myopic progression: contact lenses vs to other procedures; Therapeutic use; Wear of contact lenses in conditions of environmental stress.
10. PROBLEM SOLVING: Clinical contact lens cases.
Core Documentation
EFRON N. (Ed.) CONTACT LENS PRACTICE. THIRD EDITION, [ELSEVIER, 1998].ANON. A GUIDE TO OVERNIGHT ORTHOKERATOLOGY, [BOSTON MATERIALS, 2010].