The 23rd Winter Meeting of the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons (ESCRS) will take place in Athens, Greece. This Meeting is a leading event for cataract and refractive surgeons in Europe and focuses on the latest developments in anterior segment surgery. There will be a variety of poster sessions, didactic courses, symposia and much more.

• Basisinformation
  Datum

  15.02.2019, 08:30 - 17.02.2019, 13:00

  Kongress

  Athen

  Sprache

  Englisch

  Gebühren ab

  50.00 EUR

  Veranstalter

  ESCRS - European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons
  Templehouse

  Organisator

  ESCRS - European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons
  Templehouse
  Temple Road, Blackrock
  Tel.: + 353 1 209 1100
  Fax: + 353 1 209 1112
  E-Mail: escrs@escrs.org

• VERANSTALTUNGSORT
  Megaron Congress Centre
  Vas. Sofias Avenue and Kokkali Str.
  11521 Athen, GR
• Programm

  Friday, 15th February	Basic Optics Course
  	Part 1 Visual Behaviour (Visual Function)
  08:30	Retinal image quality	R. Applegate
  08:50	Presbyoptics	I. Pallikaris
  09:10	Straylight: importance of different domains of the point—spread function	T. Van den Berg
  09:30	State-of-the-art assessment of visual acuity and contrast sensitivity	S. Plainis
  09:55	Visual function assessment using adaptive optics	P. Artal
  10:15	Modelling visual function	H. Ginis
  	Part 2 Visual Optics
  10:35	Light propagation in the eye
  10:55	Aberrations of the optical system
  11:20	Optics of the crystalline lens and accommodative response
  11:40	IOL optics
  12:00	Epidemiology of the optical parameters of the eye
  12:20	IOL power calculation
  	Part 3 Imaging the Human Eye
  14:15	Confocal microscopy, from research to clinical practice
  14:35	Measuring the biomechanics of the cornea
  14:55	OCT imaging, from research to clinical practice
  15:15	Corneal topography challenges
  14:40	Discussion
  16:00	End of session
  Friday, 15th February	Cataract Surgery Didactic Course
  14:30 - 17:00	Part 1
  	The pilot and the cataract surgeon: minimising risk and avoiding complications
  	Surgical simulation
  	What do I want from my trainer?
  	The ergonomics of cataract surgery
  	Viscoelastics: creating space – protecting tissue
  	The capsule
  	Incisions: creating the perfect wound and correcting astigmatism
  	Biometry: precision IOL calculations
  	Postoperative ametropia correction: corneal laser refractive surgery
  Friday 15th February	ESCRS/EuCornea Cornea Day (Organised by ESCRS and EuCornea)
  	Ocular Surface Disease: What Worked and What Did Not
  	Management of Corneal Complications after Refractive Surgery
  	Tips and Pitfalls in Corneal Graft Surgery: DALK, DSEK, DMEK, PK
  	Infectious Keratitis
  Saturday, 16th February	Part 2
  	New age phaco dynamics
  	Managing the nucleus
  	Complications and complex cases: advanced phaco techniques
  	Femtosecond lasers and cataract surgery
  	Intraocular lens design
  	Presbyopia correction with intraocular lenses
  	Intraoperative correction of astigmatism: toric intraocular lenses • IOLs for cataract patients with AMD
  	Supplementary IOLs: reversible and adjustable solutions
  Cornea Didactic Course
  Saturday 16th February
  08:00 - 16:15	Clinical Cornea
  	Basic science: anatomy, physiology and biomechanics
  	Pathological responses of the cornea
  	Laboratory testing for ocular surface diseases
  	Corneal imaging evaluation techniques
  	Non-infectious keratitis
  	Infectious keratitis
  	Corneal dystrophies
  	Ectasia disorders and degenerations
  	Dry-eye and ocular surface disease
  	Immunological disorders of the cornea
  	Surgical Cornea
  	Corneal cross-linking
  	Anterior lamellar keratoplasty procedures
  	Penetrating keratoplasty
  	Management of postkeratopathy astigmatism
  	DSEK
  	DMEK
  	Amniotic membrane
  	Conjunctival surgery
  	Limbal transplantation and keratoprosthesis
  Saturday 16th February	ESONT Didactic Day 2019
  09:00 - 17:30	Visual acuity
  	Visual fields
  	Theoretical OCT
  	B-Scan
  	Infection control and sterilization
  	Biometry
  Saturday, 16th February
  14:00 - 16:00	Near Live Surgery (Organised by the Hellenic Society of Intraocular Implant and Refractive Surgery	Moderators: P. Papadopoulos, P. Smachliou
  Sunday 17th February
  11:00 - 13:00	Hellenic Society of Intraocular Implant and Refractive Surgery Symposium
  	Advanced Technology: Better Results?	K. Koufala, M. Balidis
  	LASIK vs SMILE	D. Kyroudis, K. Moschou
  	Conventional phaco vs FLACS	D. Mikropoulos, P. Papadopoulos
  	Multifocal vs EDOF IOLs	P. Smachliou, E. Patsoura
  	Cross-linking classic protocol vs modern protocols	V. Katsanevaki, G. Kymionis
  	Main Symposia
  Friday 15th February
  17:00 - 18:30	New Advances in Glaucoma	V. Karampatakis, S. Morselli
  Saturday 16th February
  11:30 - 13:00	Trends in Refractive Surgery	V. Katsanevaki, T. Kohnen
  Saturday 16th February	When the unexpected happens	S. Georgaras, D. Spalton
  16:30 - 18:00
  Sunday 17th February
  09:00 - 10:30	Pearls for the Young Cataract Surgeon	S. Palkovits, C. Pedrosa, N. Visser
  	Refractive Surgery Didactic Course
  Friday 15th February
  14:45 - 17:05	Part 1 - Diagnostic Techniques Patient selection Corneal topography Lasers in refractive surgery Biomechanics of the cornea IOL calculation strategies Quality of vision evaluation Discussion won case reports
  Saturday 16th February
  08:00 - 12:35	Part 2 - Therapeutic Techniques: Intraocular Surgery Phakic IOLs Refractive lens exchange Toric IOLs Multifocal and EDOF IOLs Refractive reoperations and enhancements
  	Part 3 - Therapeutic Techniques: Corneal Surgery Surface ablation techniques LASIK: surgical technique Topo and WF guided ablations LASIK complications Laser refractive surgery for presbyopia Cross-linking and refractive surgery Small lenticule extraction Incisional corneal procedures Intracorneal ring segments Intrastromal inlays (biologiocal and synthetic)

• Gebühren

  Fachärzte/-innen	Gebühren ab 325,00 EUR
  Ärzte/-innen in Weiterbildung	Gebühren ab 50,00 EUR Early Bird bis 01.01.1970 50,00 EUR
  medizinisches Fachpersonal	Gebühren ab 175,00 EUR Early Bird bis 01.01.1970 150,00 EUR
  Orthoptisten/-innen	Gebühren ab 50,00 EUR Early Bird bis 01.01.1970 50,00 EUR
  Industriemitarbeiter/-innen	Gebühren ab 1.100,00 EUR Early Bird bis 01.01.1970 900,00 EUR

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