We Offer Medical Education
DSEK/DSAEK and Introduction to DMEK
DSEK - 2010 Informational Agenda
Dates / Location / Hours
Dates: See DSEK Registration Form for 2010 dates
Location:
Price Vision Group
9002 N. Meridian Street, Suite 101
Indianapolis, IN 46260, USA
Programs
After five years, what do we know about Descemet’s Stripping Endothelial Keratolasty (DSEK)? Why should you be doing it? Essentially refractive neutral; rapid visual recovery; tectonically stronger eye intra-operatively and post-operatively; even with a loss of a line of Snellen vision, many patients prefer DSEK eye; accepted as the standard of care for Fuchs’ Dystrophy and Pseudophakic Bullous Keratopathy; eye banks now provide pre-cut tissue.
Descemet’s Membrane Endothelial Keratoplasty (DMEK) is intended to be refractive neutral. May address the most common reason for repeat DSEK: wrinkles/folds in visual area of graft. When it works, DMEK makes the eye look perfect. May not replace DSEK for some cases; need to know when DMEK and when DSEK
Tuesday
7:30 AM - 8:00 AM - Arrival
8:00 AM - Course Begins
MORNING
Didactic / Wet Labs
WORKING LUNCH
AFTERNOON
Post-op Examinations
Surgical videos
Difficult and Challenging Cases
“What would you do?” Q&A
ADJOURN
5:00 PM
CASUAL DINNER
6:00 PM (optional)
Wednesday
DSEK/DMEK Surgery (6 to 7 live surgeries)
7:00 AM - Begin tissue prep for surgery
Morning: Additional wet lab*
3:00 PM - Conclusion (time approximate)
You may stay for all of the surgeries, or just a few, according to your travel schedule.
*Additional wet lab is available concurrent with live surgeries, allowing participants to view surgeries for part of the morning and have additional wet lab if they desire.
Most participants plan to leave our office for the airport two hours before their flight departs.
What Do I Bring?
Participating physicians bring the following items (please label your instruments with your name).
- 0.5 forceps
- 0.12 forceps
- Small smooth tying forceps
- Small angled tying forceps
- Sinsky hook
- Cyclodialysis spatula
- At least 4 or 5 human corneal scleral rims at least 15 mm in diameter, no more than 7-10 days old
- At least two whole globes
You may bring your practice tissue with you or have your eye bank ship it to us.
Please use Fed-Ex “First Overnight Delivery” so that we receive the tissue on the first day of the course. IMPORTANT: Identify the shipping container as RESEARCH tissue, so that it is not combined with surgical tissue. Address your package to:
Price Vision Group
Attention: DSEK Course – Your Name
9002 N. Meridian Street, Suite 100
Indianapolis, IN 46260 USA
There is no good equivalent for human eyes. Fresh eyes always are preferable. Physicians coming from outside of North America: we will coordinate with Vision Share (a not-for-profit consortium of eye banks) to arrange practice tissue.
Attire
Business casual. Ties and jackets are not necessary. Please refrain from wearing perfumes and colognes. Meeting rooms are cool, you may want to bring a sweater. Scrubs will be provided for the live surgery.
Hotel
Homewood Suites by Hilton. The 2010 discounted room rate for Price Vision Group guests is $99 per night for a King or Twin Master Suite at the Homewood Suites by Hilton located at 2501 E. 86th Street, Indianapolis, IN 46240, about three miles from Price Vision Group. A complimentary breakfast buffet and evening hors d’oeuvres are included in the rate. All rooms are suites with separate bedroom and living room, and a kitchen.
Reservations: Please call the hotel directly at (317) 253-1919 and ask for in-house reservations. Then ask for the DSEK Group (Price Vision Group).
Shuttle Service: Homewood Suites provides a shuttle to Price Vision Group. Please confirm your need for the shuttle when you check in. The shuttle is available to locations within five miles of Homewood Suites (not to the airport).
Taxi
Taxi rates from the Indianapolis International Airport (IND) to Price Vision Group and our preferred hotel, Homewood Suites by Hilton, generally are about $60 one-way. However, if you call in advance, you may reserve a taxi with Carmel Circle City Cab at a rate of $40 one-way (317-848-5757). A share-ride shuttle is available from Carey Limousine at a rate of $34 (317-241-6700).
Directions
Approximately 33 miles from the Indianapolis International Airport (IND). Travel time: 45 minutes, depending upon traffic.
To Price Vision Group: From the Indianapolis International Airport (IND), start out going West on I-70; merge onto I-465 N and then I-465 E to US31/Meridian Street Exit 31. Proceed a half mile south on Meridian and turn West onto 91st Street. Price Vision Group is located in the Lakeview Office Park on the SW corner of 91st and Meridian. Enter from the west parking.
To Homewood Suites: From the Indianapolis International Airport (IND), start out going West on I-70; merge onto I-465 N and then I-465 E to Exit 33 (Keystone Avenue). South on Keystone Avenue and exit onto 86th Street (Nora/Castleton). West onto 86th Street. Homewood Suites by Hilton is on the left after Haverstick Road.
AMA PRA Category 1 CME
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of St. Vincent Hospitals and Health Services, Indianapolis, IN, and Cornea Research Foundation of America, Indianapolis, IN. St. Vincent Hospitals and Health Services is accredited by the Indiana State Medical Association to provide continuing medical education for physicians and takes responsibility for the content, quality, and scientific integrity of this CME activity. St. Vincent Hospitals and Health Services designates this educational activity for a maximum of 14.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits (Day 1: maximum credits: 6.5. Day 2: maximum credits: 7.5). Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
QUESTIONS? Please Contact…
Wendy Mickler
Price Vision Group
9002 North Meridian Street, Suite 100
Indianapolis, IN 46260
(Tel) 317-814-2823
(Fax) 317-844-5590
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