Fundamentals and applications of medical lasers for various clinical procedures including dermatology and plastic surgery, wound healings, nerve stimulation, dentistry, cancer therapy, and ophthalmic surgeries were reviewed recently [1]. The laser spectra of UV (190400) um, visible (400-700) nm, near-IR (700-2900) nm, and mid-IR (3-5) um having various penetration depths (from determine the pro...

OBJECTIVE Postanesthetic emergence agitation is a common problem in pediatric postanesthetic care unit with an incidence ranging from 10 to 80%. This study was done to determine the prevalence of emergence agitation and associated risk factors in pediatric patients who underwent general anesthesia. METHODS This cross-sectional descriptive and analytic study was performed on 747 pediatric pati...

Continuous intraoperative optical coherence tomography (iOCT) integrated into the operating microscope is a new modification in the current operating microscope to aid in the surgical procedures involving both the anterior and the posterior segment. This helps in intraoperative planning, modification of the surgical steps if required and confirmation of the surgical endpoint in the operating ro...

the province of rudsar is located in the caspian littoral zone of iran. in 1970 an ophthalmic health survey was carried out in 25 units, which were selected by random sampling in these areas. a total of 2,165 persons were examined and the results of this evaluation have been prepared in 6 parts, consisting of ophthalmic conditions and health customs, infectious eye diseases, visual status and d...

eration of primary care ophthalmologists. This could share some modules with ophthalmic surgical training, but would concentrate on developing areas such as teaching skills, epidemiology, population based research and management skills to a higher level than is usually attained in ophthalmic surgical training. It is difficult to guess what effect the impending changes in the way clinical servic...

PURPOSE The aim of the study was to evaluate the safety of besifloxacin ophthalmic suspension 0.6% as antibacterial prophylaxis in the surgical setting. METHODS Two prospective safety surveillance studies were conducted-one in the cataract surgery setting and the other in the laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) surgery setting. Cases from patients aged 18 years and above were eligib...

Many embolization procedures have been described for the treatment of cavernous dural fistulas, including direct superior ophthalmic vein cannulation. Sometimes thrombosis of the superior ophthalmic vein or an anatomic variant will not allow its cannulation. Herein, we describe a case of a cavernous dural fistula in which an anteriorly narrowed and thrombosed superior ophthalmic vein was cannul...