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Patient Education Tools on CD-ROM

Deliver professional PowerPoint presentations and prepare your own customized patient education and marketing materials with these helpful CD-ROMs.

PowerPoint Presentations
Comprehensive Academy-developed PowerPoint presentations make it easier to deliver professional, informative, on-point presentations to groups of patients, colleagues, students and your staff. All presentations include full-color illustrations and are entirely customizable to suit your specific needs.

Advances in Refractive Surgery PowerPoint Presentation CD-ROM.Advances in Refractive Surgery PowerPoint Presentation CD-ROM, 2nd Edition

Contains 12 informative and customizable PowerPoint presentations, providing ophthalmologists a tool to educate patients, community groups, or allied health professionals about various refractive surgery procedures. Each presentation includes brief, high-quality animations to help explain refractive errors and refractive procedures, as well as audience handouts outlining the highlights of the presentation. Ophthalmologists in non-English speaking countries can easily replace the text with their own language. Mac and PC compatible.

Presentations include:

  • How the eye works
  • Monovision for presbyopia
  • Incisional procedures (AK and RK)
  • LASIK and Epi-LASIK
  • Bladeless LASIK
  • Advanced surface ablation (PRK and LASEK)
  • Wavefront-guided laser surgery
  • Conductive keratoplasty (CK)
  • Phakic IOLs
  • Accommodative and multifocal IOLs
  • Refractive lens exchange
  • Intacs

The Eye Over Time PowerPoint presentation about various eye conditions and treatments.The Eye Over Time PowerPoint Presentation CD-ROM, 2nd Edition

Choose from 11 informative and customizable PowerPoint presentations to help you inform patients, community groups, or allied health professionals about various eye conditions and treatments. Each presentation includes brief, high-quality animations to help explain how the eye works, eye conditions and treatment options, as well as audience handouts outlining the highlights of the presentation. Ophthalmologists in non-English speaking countries can easily replace the text with a translation. Mac and PC compatible.

Presentations include:

  • How the eye works
  • Common eye conditions in children
  • Eyelid problems
  • Dry eye
  • Floaters and flashes
  • Glaucoma
  • Age-related macular degeneration (AMD)
  • Diabetic retinopathy
  • Cataract surgery
  • IOL options for cataract surgery
  • Low vision

Communication Tools
Communicating effectively with your patients can be as important as diagnosing and treating them. Produce professional-looking, customizable patient education information about specific conditions and treatments for print or the Web.

Personal-Eyes Printable Patient Handouts.Personal-Eyes Printable Patient Handouts

Features more than 200 handouts explaining diseases, procedures, diagnostic tests and treatment, as well as Spanish-language versions of some of the most frequently used handouts. All documents can be personalized and you can easily change text, font size, add a photo or map, preview documents before printing and append illustrations or diagrams.

Categories include cataract, cornea and external disease, general interest, glaucoma, low vision and eyewear, neuro-ophthalmology, oculoplastics, pediatrics and strabismus, refractive surgery, retina and vitreous and trauma and sports safety.

Eyedrop Information PadEyedrop Information Pad

Make prescribing and using eyedrops quick and easy. Just fill in the blanks and your patient knows when to take the medication. On the other side is a simple diagram showing how to use the drops correctly. Package of 50.

Eye Sketch Pad.Eye Sketch Pad

Communicate with your patients more effectively and efficiently by sketching their eye conditions on the illustrated frontal, lateral, or fundus view of the eye. Package of 50.

Ordering Information
Academy CD-ROMs are individually packaged. For ordering instructions, visit the Academy Store.

The Academy’s patient education line also includes:

  • Online subscriptions
  • Eye fact sheets 
  • Booklets
  • PowerPoint presentations 
  • DVDs
  • Brochures

For more information on these products, visit the Academy Store.