EyeWorld India March 2012 Issue

March 2012 EW TABLE OF CONTENTS 6 P U B L I S H I N G S TA F F Publisher APACRS Charity Wai apacrs@snec.com.sg Donald R. Long dlong@eyeworld.org APACRS Editorial Kathy Chen apacrs@snec.com.sg Tan Geok Lan Christine Shimmon Senior Staff Writer Chiles Aedam R. Samaniego ASCRS Editorial Editor Stephanie Clark-Graham Staff Writers Faith Hayden Jena Passut Production Graphic Designer Julio Guerrero Production Assistant Karen Salerni Contributing Editors Vanessa Caceres – Lakeland, Florida Michelle Dalton – Reading, Pennsylvania Rich Daly – Arlington, Virginia Enette Ngoei – Singapore Matt Young – Malaysia March 2012 Volume 8 • No.1 Senior Contributing Editor Maxine Lipner – Nyack, New York Advertising Sales ASCRS Media 4000 Legato Road Suite 700, Fairfax, VA 22033 (1-703) 591-2220 • fax: (1-703) 273-2963 eyeworld@eyeworld.org • www.eyeworld.org Director Donald R. 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Professor CHEE Soon Phaik Professor S. ISTIANTORO Professor Choun-Ki JOO Dr YC LEE Dr Pannet PANGPUTHIPONG Assoc. Professor Prin ROJANAPONGPUN Dr Abhay VASAVADA Dr Ronald YEOH REGIONAL EDITORIAL BOARDS ASIA-PACIFIC CHINESE EDITION Regional Editors-in-Chief Professor ZHAO Jialiang Professor ZHAO Kan Xing Regional Deputy Editor Professor HE Shouzhi ASIA-PACIFIC INDIA EDITION Regional Managing Editor Dr S. NATARAJAN ASIA-PACIFIC KOREAN EDITION Regional Editor-in-Chief Professor Hungwong TCHAH Regional Managing Editor Professor Chul Young CHOI 46 52 57 DEVICE FOCUS Laser systems for refractive cataract surgery 54 This month’s column discusses the latest in femto for phaco by Michelle Dalton PHARMA FOCUS Not just a drop in the phaco bucket 56 Designer steroids and novel anti- inflammatory agents by Maxine Lipner NEWS & OPINION The software revolution in ophthalmology 57 EyeWorld looks at how innovations in software technology have changed the profession by Enette Ngoei