380 eye surgeons from across the world will meet for International Ophthalmic Conference on Arabian Sea.
This week, the best and renowned eye surgeons from all over the world will be cruising on the Arabian Sea on the luxury cruise ship Super Star Libra.
While coral watching, snorkeling and parasailing in the Lakshwadweep are on the agenda, it will not be all fun and games. The first ever International Ophthalmic Conference is being held on board the luxury cruise ship, which will host about 380 eye surgeons from around the world who will attend the conference.
The conference will include symposia, didactic lectures, a film festival and ophthalmic debates. There will also be sessions on ophthalmic innovation and emerging trends with an aim to bring in tomorrow’s techniques and technologies to today’s understanding.
Dr SK Sundaramoorthy, medical director, Lotus Eye Care Hospital, Coimbatore and Salem, who organised the conference, said, “The theme of the conference is Current Practice and Future Trends. Ten years ago, after a cataract surgery the patient had to wear thick glasses. But now you have multifocal lenses placed in the eyes, which enable you to see both short and long distances. Even this technology is constantly improving.”
Another interesting and path-breaking technological advancement is the artificial eye. “A person who is completely blind can actually see with the help of an artificial eye. In layman’s terms it is a camera attached to a computer, which takes images. The computer then sends electrical stimuli that the brain can read, and which enable the patient to see,” Sundaramoorthy explained.
Sundaramoorthy has performed about 13,500 Lasik surgeries and over 5,000 other surgical procedures.
“There is also advancement in LASIK surgery (which offers glass-free vision), which has been performed for over a decade now. We have wavefront-based epi-lasik, a new technology, which offers even better results and clearer vision than Lasik. People who have very high power, which could not be corrected with Lasik now have a better option,” added Sundaramoorthy.
With new and better technology, treatment can also be offered to patients suffering from corneal opacity and keratoconus—conditions that did not have advanced treatment options earlier.
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