Patient Handout: Multifocal Soft Contact Lenses
Communication is key when introducing presbyopes to the concept of multifocal soft contact lenses. Download and use our patient-facing infographic to guide your conversations.
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Practitioner Reference: Artificial Tear Ingredient Fact Sheet
Download our fact sheet describing artificial tear ingredients. Use it as a guide to help select artificial tears based on your patients’ individual needs. Continue reading
Practitioner Reference: Communication in Myopia Management
Kate and Paul Gifford provide an infographic with communication tips eye care practitioners can use when discussing myopia management Continue reading
Patient handout: Replace your contact lenses on time
Download our patient handout, developed by Alison Ng, to use as a starting point for conversations with patients about why it’s important to follow recommended replacement schedules. Continue reading
CLEAR Summary
Each CLEAR paper tackles a separate area related to contact lens practice. The summary below brings together the key points across all of those reports to help inform evidence-based practice. This practical guide walks through the steps of a typical … Continue reading
Contact Lens Compendium
The Contact Lens Compendium is an up-to-date listing of contact lenses and solutions available in either Canada or the USA. It is available for free as a searchable online database for Canadian/American eye care professionals. The 2021 issue is now … Continue reading
Practitioner Reference: Preservatives and Dry Eye Disease
Appropriate use of preserved and preservative-free artificial tears is a commonly encountered question in clinical practice. The results of a 2019 literature review by Walsh and Jones are summarised in this factsheet, available to download as a reference for eye … Continue reading
Supporting good habits for contact lens wearers
Produced by CORE, and available through contact lens update, there are four patient handouts which eye care practitioners can download, print, and make use of in practice. The first gives five facts contact lens wearers should know during the COVID-19 … Continue reading
Practitioner Reference: Diagnosis and classification of dry eye disease
Our two-sided reference has been designed to be printed out and kept for use in practice. Side one summarizes the TFOS DEWS II diagnostic algorithm, providing additional information on what to consider during patient screening, when assessing homeostasis markers and … Continue reading
Practitioner Reference: Getting started with Orthokeratology
The clinical insight in this issue is a practitoner reference and infographic “Getting started with orthokeratology”, stepping you through obtaining good corneal topography images, how to assess likelihood of achieving full refraction from OK, and decision making for correcting astigmatism. Continue reading
