Focus on reuse: reducing waste associated with topical preoperative antiseptics.

Purpose: To outline the environmental and financial costs associated with single-use topical antiseptic (5% povidone-iodine [PVI] solution) in the ophthalmology theatre setting and explore potential methods of repurposing topical antiseptics.

Setting: Large tertiary referral center (Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide, Australia).

Design: Single-center prospective observational study.

TUBERCULOUS CHORIORETINITIS: A CHALLENGING CASE OF AN OPHTHALMIC MIMIC.

Purpose: To report a challenging case of tuberculous chorioretinitis.

Methods: Case report of a 51-year-old woman from the Middle East, who was referred from an optometrist with a suspicious retinal lesion in her right eye.

Results: Clinical examination showed multifocal, pale, elevated lesions temporal to the right macula with no vasculitis or hemorrhages.

Salvageable waste associated with intravitreal injections: A local medical waste management approach.

Background: Healthcare waste management is a globally challenging issue with an increased prevalence of disposable, single-use materials in developed countries and a rapidly ageing population continuing to drive an increase in the use of medical resources. One manifestation of this within ophthalmology is the increasing number of intravitreal injections given for conditions such as age-related macular degeneration and diabetic macular oedema.

Methods: A prospective controlled cohort study was performed over 5 weeks in 2021 during which two sites were selected to compare different approaches to sorting the waste generated by intravitreal injections.

Pallid Disc Oedema in a Young Patient: Clinical and Diagnostic Challenge.

A mid-thirties male with end-stage renal failure receiving haemodialysis on a background of four failed renal transplants, post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder,and autonomic dysfunction presented with acute vision change in his left eye. Over days his vision in that eye deteriorated from 20/25 to no light perception. Given his complex medical background he was extensively investigated for infective, inflammatory, infiltrative and vasculitic aetiologies to explain acute vision loss with pallid disc swelling.