Comm Eye Health Vol. 29 No. 94 2016. Published online 04 October, 2016
Postoperative care

Responsibility for our patients does not end when they leave the operating theatre – ensuring good eye health and visual outcomes in the long term also requires good postoperative care, counselling and follow-up. This issue offers practical advice and emphasises the importance of involving patients and family members in postoperative care.
Articles in this issue –
- Editorial: Improving cataract outcomes through good postoperative care
- Working with patients to optimise cataract outcomes
- Routine postoperative nursing management
- Postoperative cataract care: the Aravind perspective
- Detecting and managing complications in cataract patients
- The basics of good postoperative care after glaucoma surgery
- Postoperative care for paediatric cataract patients
- Paediatric cataract: challenges and complications
- Cleaning and dressing the eye after surgery
- Understanding and caring for a lensmeter
- Postoperative care in trichiasis surgery
- Safer ocular anaesthesia
Continuing professional development –
- Picture quiz: Issue 94, October 2016
- Test yourself: Postoperative care
- Time to reflect: Postoperative care
News and notices –
- Teaching institutions
- New South Asia edition
- 10GA courses on high-quality surgical care
- Next issue
- Issue 96: Online-only CEHJ issue
Further information about this issue –
Consulting editor for Issue 94: Nick Astbury
Download images from this issue: Community Eye Health photostream on Flickr.