Swollen Optic Nerve: Now What?
COPE #87023-NO
Event #126818
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Optic nerve head pathology including swelling can range from very benign that only requires monitoring all the way to a life threatening emergency. This interactive 1-hour lecture in a grand rounds format will review and update the most common causes of ONH swelling, pseudo-swelling and papilledema.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- To become familiar with and review the best ways to differentiate swelling of the optic nerve from pseudoswelling.
- To become more familiar and update the signs, symptoms, differential diagnosis and treatment for optic neuritis and MS.
- To become more familiar and update the signs, symptoms, differential diagnosis and treatment for non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy
- To become more familiar and update the signs, symptoms, differential diagnosis and treatment for arteritic ischemic optic neuropathy
- To become more familiar and update the signs, symptoms, differential diagnosis and treatment for papilledema/pseudotumor cerebri.
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Get to know our speakers
Dr.
Nathan Lighthizer
Dr. Nathan Lighthizer, O.D., F.A.A.O.,
is a 2009 graduate of Pacific University College of Optometry. Upon graduation, he completed a residency in Family
Practice Optometry with an emphasis in Ocular Disease through the NSU Oklahoma
College of Optometry. Dr. Lighthizer has
since joined the faculty at the Oklahoma College of Optometry and serves as the
Chief of Specialty Care Clinics and the Chief of Electrodiagnostics Clinic. Dr. Lighthizer lectures nationally on numerous
topics, most notably advanced ophthalmic procedures, electrodiagnostics, and
ocular disease.