Abstract Present patient clothing for infants and children with ophthalmic surgery have several limitations, which is inconvenient to wear, hard to keep warm and difficult in preventing patients from scratching eyes underwent surgery. A modified patient clothing for infants and children is designed to overcome these existing problems.

Abstract Background: Previous studies have proposed an automated customized program named MATLAB used in the foveal avascular zone (FAZ) measurements in Triton optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) images. But it is not open-source and not easy to obtain, which will largely restrict its application in clinical practice and medical research. In this study, we aimed to investigate the feasibility of the Smooth Level Sets macro (SLSM), a free and open-source program, and compared with the manual measurements and MATLAB in the FAZ quantification in Triton OCTA. Methods: Thirty-five eyes of 35 healthy subjects were scanned four times continuously using Triton OCTA. Manual and automated methods including the SLSM and MATLAB were used in the FAZ metrics (area, perimeter, and circularity) of the superficial capillary plexus. The accuracy, repeatability of all methods, and agreement between automated and manual methods were analyzed. Results: The SLSM presented higher accuracy with a higher average Dice coefficient (0.9506) than MATLAB (0.9483), which was just second to the manual method (0.9568). Both the SLSM [intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) =0.987; coefficient of variation (CoV) =3.935%] and MATLAB (ICC =0.983; CoV =4.165%) showed excellent repeatability for the FAZ area. They also had excellent agreement with manual measurement (SLSM, ICC =0.973; MATLAB, ICC =0.968). Conclusion: The SLSM exhibits better accuracy than MATLAB in the automated FAZ measurement in Triton OCTA, the results of which were comparable to those obtained by manual measurement. This free and open-source program may be an accessible and feasible option for automated FAZ segmentation on Triton OCTA images.

Abstract Optic nerves are a part of the central nervous system, which is difficult to regenerate after injury. Optic nerve injury is usually accompanied by continuous apoptosis of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) and degeneration or necrosis of optic nerves, resulting in visual impairment or even complete blindness. At present, the basic research on optic nerve regeneration mainly focuses on protecting and maintaining the survival of RGCs after optic nerve injury, promoting RGCs axon regeneration, and reconstructing optic nerve function. In this paper, RGCs protection, axon regeneration, and optic nerve function reconstruction are used as key words to collect the latest domestic and foreign literatures on optic nerve regeneration. The research progress of optic nerve regeneration in recent years was reviewed from the aspects of antioxidant stress, provision of exogenous cytokines, inflammatory stimulation, anti-glial scar, gene regulation and so on, in order to help the follow-up basic research and clinical translation.

Dry eye disease (DED) is a common chronic ocular surface disease. It can not only cause discomfort and damage to the eyes but also easily lead to psychological disorders in patients. The most common psychological disorders related to DED are anxiety, depression and sleep disorder. To alleviate the condition of DED, in addition to active treatment for DED itself, it is also necessary for the patients to maintain a healthy psychological state. Therefore, attention should be paid to the pathogenesis, prevention and treatment measures of DED-related anxiety, depression and other psychological disorders.

Objective: To conduct a pre-course survey on the graduate students who participated in the Molecular Medicine Laboratory Skills Training Course in the Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center of Sun Yat-sen University to provide a reference for the preparation of the course. Methods: We asked the doctoral and master’s students who participated in the training courses of molecular medical experimental skills in 2020 and 2021 to take a pre-course questionnaire survey and analyzed the results by the students’ pre-course command of theoretical knowledge and pre-training operational experience in 15 lessons of special topics or techniques. Results: A total of 155 students completed the pre-course questionnaire survey. Our results showed that there were 14 lessons in which more than 25% of the students were not familiar with the theoretical knowledge, whereas there were 6 lessons in which less than 10% of the students had high operational proficiency. The students majoring in the molecular medicine had better prior knowledge of the techniques: there were only 9 lessons in which more than 25% of the students were not familiar with the theoretical knowledge, whereas there were 12 lessons in which less than 10% of the students had high operational proficiency. The four lessons with worst prior knowledge were cell proliferation, flow cytometry, image acquisition, and omics analyses. We grouped the 15 lessons into 7 categories: the ophthalmic experimental data collection, the omics technology, the data analyses, the cell technology, the protein technology, the tissue analyses, and the molecular technology, presenting by the level of the students’ pre-training proficiency from low to high. Conclusion: The first-year graduate students were very weak in basic knowledge and had little experience in techniques before joining the molecular medicine training courses. It is urgent to improve the laboratory skills training system and strengthen the construction of the curriculum system.

Objective: To evaluate the current status and correlations between attitudes and competency for interpersonal communication in ophthalmology standardized training trainee. Methods: A questionnaire survey was conducted on the communication attitudes and interpersonal communication ability of standardized training trainees from three grades in Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, affiliated to Sun Yat-sen University, and the correlation between communication attitude and communication ability was further analyzed. Results: A total of 196 trainees were included. The scores of positive attitude, negative attitude, and interpersonal communication skills were 51.38±6.52, 36.80±5.70, and 2.41±0.40, respectively. In addition, the dimension of coaching and counseling scores were 2.50±0.64, the dimension of providing effective and negative feedback scores were 2.61±0.50, and the dimension of supportive communication scores were 2.29±0.44. The positive attitudes of communication skills were significantly related to the interpersonal communication skills and three-dimensionality (P<0.01). The interpersonal communication skills were significantly associated with sex, grades, interest in ophthalmology, social support from the family and friends (P<0.05). Conclusion: Ophthalmology trainees have excellent positive attitudes toward communication skills, but the overall communication skills are weak and influenced by a variety of factors. More attention should be paid to the development of interpersonal communication skills of the trainees, and specialized training in doctor-patient communication is warranted.

Objective: To evaluate the changes of visual fatigue symptoms, accommodative functions, ocular surface conditions, and high-order aberrations (HOA) after implantation of implantable collamer lens (ICL), and to explore their effects on asthenopia. Methods: It was a prospective observational case series. Patients with ametropia who underwent ICL surgeries and completed 3-month follow-up in our hospital were enrolled.Asthenopia scores, amplitude of accommodation (AA), positive/negative relative accommodation (PRA/NRA),accommodative facility (AF), the ratio of accommodative convergence and accommodation (AC/A), Schirmer test, non-invasive breakup time (NBUT), and HOA were examined before surgeries and at 1 week, 1 month and 3 months after surgeries, then statistically analyzed. Results: Symptoms of asthenopia were significantly worse at 1 week after ICL surgeries than those before surgeries, but increased gradually as time went by, eventually recovered at 3 months postoperatively. Among regulatory indicators, AA decreased 1 week postoperatively, but was significantly higher at 1 and 3 months after surgeries; AF was lower 1 week after surgery than baseline, slightly better at 1 month postoperatively, and significantly higher at 3 months postoperatively; PRA and NRA had no significant change; AC/A decreased 1 week after surgeries, returned to the baseline at 1 month postoperatively, and increased 3 months postoperatively. Tears and meibomian gland function index: NBUT values at 1 week, 1 month and 3 months after surgeries were significantly decreased compared with those before surgeries, and NBUT at 1 week postoperatively was the lowest; Schiermer values had a slight decrease at 1 week after surgeries, and basically recovered at 1 and 3 months after surgeries. HOA after surgeries were increased compared with those before surgeries, but there was no significant change between each time point. Correlation analysis showed that the lower AF and NBUT after ICL surgeries, the more severe the asthenopia symptoms. Conclusion: The symptoms of asthenopia aggravated transiently after ICL implantation surgeries, but improved gradually with time. AF and NBUT were important factors affecting the changes of asthenopia.

Retrobulbar block is one of the common anesthesia methods in ophthalmic surgery, however, misconducting the procedure would result in severe complications including central toxicity from local anesthetics. This study presented a 26-year-old female patient diagnosed retinal detachment for retinal surgery under retrobulbar block, 10 min after anesthesia, the patient initially exhibited increased heart rate and blood pressure, inability to swallow secretions (sputum), hoarseness, and dyspnea, then SpO2 decreased, the patient displayed contralateral eye movement disorder, reduced systemic muscle strength and other clinical manifestations. The condition was improved with the treatments for life support, and the surgery completed uneventfully under general anesthesia with tracheal intubation.

The postoperative pain of ophthalmic surgery has been widely concerned in recent years. Some patients show enlarged painful areas and neurophotophobia postoperatively. This abnormal increase in noxious irritant signals after surgery is called hyperalgesia. The development of hyperalgesia can result in delayed postoperative recovery for patients. In addition, hyperalgesia can also cause discomfort for patients, and induce patients to use more analgesics, which can have related side effects. TRPV1/TRPA1 is a nociceptor, which can be specifically activated by nociceptive stimuli to induce hyperalgesia. Nevertheless, the pathogenesis of hyperalgesia after ophthalmology surgery has not been fully elucidated, and the molecular signal pathway of how TRPV1 sensitizes and causes hyperalgesia is not yet clear. 

Objective: To construct an ideal and practical method for managing ophthalmic high-value surgical supplies to strengthen the management of ophthalmic operating room. Methods: A visual management system of ophthalmic high-value surgical supplies was established by using information technology connected with hospital information systems, then the data were integrated to construct a monitoring system for real-time status of ophthalmic high-value surgical supplies, including the whole life cycle management of the surgical supplies. Results: Through the establishment of the system for whole life cycle of high-value ophthalmic surgical supplies, the whole process management realized the supplies for preoperative control, intraoperative monitoring and postoperative trace. Conclusion: Constructing the system solves the daily management problem of ophthalmic high-value surgical supplies, reduces the blind area of management, and strengthens the supervision of surgical supplies in the ophthalmic operating room.