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Welcome to OT 's Education library, where you can access archived CPD and CET articles, Practice team resources and Skills guides covering 31 topic areas.
This article outlines the investigation of patients presenting with homonymous hemianopia following stroke
Author/s: Fabrizio Bonci Dip Optom (ITA)
Closed: 13 May 2017
This visual recognition feature presents a series of pupil anomalies for the practitioner to consider the diagnosis and potential aetiology
Author/s: Dr Janis Orr
Closed: 16 Dec 2016
This article outlines the importance of taking a careful history from patients presenting with potential binocular vision anomalies
Author/s: Dr Catherine Porter PhD, MCOpotm, Simon Frackiewicz BSc (Hons) Optom, BSc (Hons) Orthop, MCOptom DipTp(IP)
Closed: 09 Sep 2016
This video details common and uncommon presentations of iritis. Dr Eric Schmidt presents diagnostic dilemmas and particular attention is paid to the systemic diseases associated with iritis. Dr Schmid...
Author/s: Dr Eric Schmidt
Closed: 07 Jun 2016
This article presents the classification, risk factors and management of retinal vein occlusion, outlining the implications for patients
Author/s: Kaykhosrov Manuchehri
Closed: 13 May 2016
This article explores the potential influence of calorie restriction upon ocular disease and considers the impact for an ageing population
Author/s: Iain Johnson BSc (Hons), FBDO CL
Closed: 11 Mar 2016
Sex hormones can affect the ocular surface contributing to dry eye; this article will summarise these effects on different ocular tissues and provide practitioners with information of sex hormone syn...
Author/s: Emma Gibson BSc (Hons), Professor Fiona Stapleton
Closed: 12 Feb 2016
Practice staff need to be able to safely undertake manual handling of patients who have difficulty moving around within an optical practice. Effective training reduces the risk of injury to the patien...
Author/s: Deborah Harrison
Closed: 23 Dec 2015
This article is the second in a two-part explaining the optic nerve head (ONH). The first instalment focused on congenital disorders of the optic nerve, while this article will featrue acquired ab...
Author/s: Dr Kate Lanier
This CET exam considers the short-term changes that can occur in refractive error as a result of acute fluctuations in blood glucose levels in patients with diabetes
Author/s: Dr Byki Huntjens, Irene Ctori
This first article in a two part series on optic nerve abnormalities concentrates on those of congenital origin with a selection of case studies and short discussion