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LASIK FLAP MANIPULATOR

Katena presents the LASIK Flap Manipulator.

The Manipulator features an elongated ball tip, which you use to locate your patient's flap edge by gently depressing the cornea. Once you locate the flap edge, you engage the edge with the tip and slide it around the rim to open the flap partially. You then lift the flap with forceps to expose the stromal bed for laser treatment.

Daniel Durrie, M.D., introduced the LASIK Flap Manipulator at the AAO meeting.

KATENA
Phone: (800) 225-1195
Fax: (973) 989-8175
E-mail: globe@katena.com
Web: www.katena.com 

VITREORETINAL INSTRUMENTS

Rhein Medical introduces a line of 21-gauge handheld instruments for vitreoretinal surgery. The instruments are designed to:

• incise and grasp tissue
• remove foreign objects from the posterior segment.

	Rhein Medical now offers a line of more than 60 vitrectomy instruments.

The instruments are available in three models. Two come with a black handle (one is irrigating, the other non-irrigating); the third model is nonirrigating with a stainless steel handle.

RHEIN MEDICAL
Phone: (800) 637-4346
Fax: (813) 885- 9346
E-mail: info@rheinmedical.com
Web: www.rheinmedical.com 

EASYFIELD UPGRADE

Oculus has added new features to its Easyfield perimeter.

You can store up to 40,000 exams in the Easyfield from Oculus.

The Easyfield now lets you create "User Defined" exams. With this feature, you can customize test parameters -- such as area, strategy, speed, fixation method and short-term fluctuation -- for up to four different programs.

Plus, the Easyfield now includes four "Quick Start Programs": screening, standard, macula and glaucoma. This allows you to begin exams rapidly.

A new optional carrying case is also available.

OCULUS
Phone: (888) 284-8004
Fax: (425) 867-1881
E-mail: sales@oculususa.com
Web: www.oculususa.com 

STRIAE REMOVAL

	You can use Akorn's striae removal instruments up to 1 year post-op.

Akorn presents the Donnenfeld Striae Removal Instruments, which Eric D. Donnenfeld, M.D., of Rockville Centre, N.Y., helped develop.

The Donnenfeld set consists of a spatula and titanium forceps. You use the forceps to hold your patient's elevated LASIK flap, while using the spatula to massage the surface and undersurface of the flap.

The forceps have a Y-shaped tip to ensure stable fixation. The spatula is curved, 10 mm long and 3 mm wide.

AKORN
Phone: (800) 932-5676
Fax: (800) 943-3694
E-mail: n/a
Web: www.akorn.com 

SEMINARS

COURSES ADDRESS FEEDER VESSEL TREATMENT FOR AMD

Heidelberg Engineering and the Glaser Murphy Retina Treatment Centers are offering a course highlighting a new technique for treating wet macular degeneration: "Learn to Stabilize and Improve Vision Through Feeder Vessel Treatment for Wet Macular Degeneration Patients."

The course will cover high-speed indocyanine green (ICG) angiography and feeder vessel treatment. In a hands-on workshop, you'll learn how to detect and treat feeder vessels associated with choroidal neovascularization.

Course dates and locations include:

• April 21, Washington, D.C.
• June 23, Chicago
• Sept. 22, San Francisco.

(For more information, see the profile of Bert M. Glaser, M.D., in the "Profiles in Practice Success" department.)

GLASER MURPHY
Phone: (443) 275-1554
Fax: (410) 339-7326
E-mail: info@glasermurphyretina.com
Web: www.glasermurphyretina.com