Program
2024
Organizing Commitee:
Prof. Dr. med. Daniel Mojon
Prof. Dr. med. Thomas Neuhann
Dr. med. Pascal Hasler
Prof. Dr. med. Siegfried Priglinger
Prof. Dr. med. Jörg Stürmer
Dr. med. Ferhat Turgut
Dr. med. Lilly Khamsy
Final Program of the Cataract Circle
The event ist certified with 10 SIWF/ISFM CME credits for both days.
The Cataract Circle, Zürich, Switzerland 08/11/2024 - 09/11/2024, has been accredited by the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME®) with 9.5 European CME credits (ECMEC®s), 5 on Friday and 4.5 on Saturday. Each medical specialist should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.
Friday
November 8th 2024
09:00 – 13:00 Wetlab Advanced and Beginners
from 12:30 Registration
13:30 – 14:00 Welcome, Keynote Lecture Cataracts and Glaucoma
13:30
Welcome
Daniel Mojon, Thomas Neuhann, Lilly Khamsy
13:35
Cataracts and Glaucoma
Jörg Stürmer
14:00 – 15:30 Challenges in the Assessment with Patients with Cataract
14:00
How to Communicate your Assessment to the Patient
Vera Schmit-Eilenberger
14:15
Astigmatic correction - when and what to plan?
Jascha Wendelstein
14:30
Binocular Problems
Daniel Mojon
14:45
Avoiding Pitfalls by Assessing the Cataract Morphology
Hanna Zuche
15:00
Roundtable
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:30
Avoiding Postoperative Surprises by Proper Preoperative Work-Up
16:00
Preoperative Evaluation for Cataract Surgery
Nicolas Feltgen
16:15
Cataract Surgery and Corneal Disease
Arthur Hammer
16:30
Indications for Phacovitrectomy
Katharina Krepler
16:45
Biometry: Avoiding Refractive Miss
Augustina Grigaité
17:00
Roundtable
17:30 – 18:00 Coffee Break
18:00 – 19:30
Video Session: When Cataract Surgery goes Wrong
18:00
When Capsulorhexis goes Wrong
Siegfried Priglinger
18:10
Operation goes Right, but Vitreous Shows Up
Lilly Khamsy
18:20
The Capsule is the Key to Happiness
Nicolas Feltgen
18:30
Saving the Rhexis
Augustina Grigaité
18:40
Weak Zonules
Pascal Hasler
18:50
Posterior capsular rupture and IOL explantation
Katharina Krepler
19:30 Apéro Riche
Saturday
November 9th 2024
from 07:30 Registration
08:00 – 09:30 Laser and Cataract Surgery: What you should know
08:00
When to YAG the Posterior Capsule and when not to
Nicola Vandemeulebroecke
08:15
Tips and tricks for YAG Laser Posterior Capsulotomy
Daniel Mojon
08:30
Planning cataract surgery laser vision correction patients
Arthur Hammer
08:45
YAG Laser: Myth or Real?
Vera Schmit-Eilenberger
09:00
Roundtable
09:30 – 10:00 Ask the Experts: Anesthesiology and Cataract Surgery
09:30
Roundtable
Daniel Reinhardt, Sandra Becker, Leander Sakellaris
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 – 12:00 Pearls Every Cataract Surgeon Must Know
10:30
Cataract surgery in patients with pseudoexfoliation syndrome
Katharina Krepler
10:40
CCC Pearls
Bao Khanh Tran
10:50
Avoiding Expulsive Bleedings
Daniel Mojon
11:00
Pearls for Iris Repair
Nicolas Feltgen
11:10
How to handle broken IOLs
Bao Khanh Tran
11:20
When not to Implant EDOF and Multifical IOLs
Siegfried Priglinger
11:30
Roundtable
12:00 – 12:30 Break
12:30 – 13:30 Treatment of Common Postoperative Issues after Cataract Surgery
12:30
Dry Eye
Mateusz Kecik
12:45
Anterior Capsule Phimosis
tbd
13:00
Glare and Halos
Arthur Hammer
13:15
Roundtable
