To assess the knowledge and awareness of glaucoma among nursing personnel in a rural tertiary care hospital. Questionnaire based study conducted on 106 nursing personnel. A self designed questionnaire combined of 20 closed ended dichotomous and open ended questions were administered. Subjects 'having heard of glaucoma' even before being recruited for the study were defined as aware and subjects who were having some understanding of the eye disease were defined as knowledgeable. A total of 106 subjects participated in the study. The proportion of awareness was 96.22% (102). ‘Good knowledge’ was demonstrated in 26.41% (28) of the participants. 44.3% (47) participants were classified under ‘fair knowledge’ and the remaining 29.24% (31) were deemed with ‘poor knowledge’. Even though the level of awareness of glaucoma among the nursing personnel is good, their knowledge base is still inadequate.

To ascertain whether to stop or continue aspirin before cataract surgery. Prospective observational study from July 2018 to June 2019. Information on pre-existing medical conditions like cardiac disease/stroke & use of Aspirin was obtained from patients posted for cataract surgery. Physical examination was done by physician & decided whether aspirin has to be stopped before surgery. Intra-operative and post-operative outcomes were recorded. SPSS 20.0 by using descriptive statistics i.e. only frequency and percentage. Out of 64 patients, 38 discontinued aspirin and 26 continued. In the group of patients who discontinued aspirin, 2 had bleeding complication in the form of bleeding from cut ends of conjunctiva. Where as in the group who continued aspirin 4 patients had bleeding complication. No thromboembolic events were recorded in both the groups. The risk of medical & ophthalmic events surrounding cataract surgery were so low that absolute differences in risk associated with changes in Aspirin use were minimal.

: To determine the prevalence and pattern of the different types of ocular morbidities in elderly eye camp patients.: Cross sectional observational study from July 2018 to June 2019, in eye camp patients aged 40-80 years attending Ophthalmology Department with a history of ocular diseases underwent routine eye examination.Data was entered in MS Excel 2016 and analysed using SPSS 17.0 by using descriptive statistics like frequency and percentage.: Of 2912 people, males were 1759 and females were 1153. Most common ocular morbidity was Cataract 1967 (67.54%) and Cataract associated with comorbidities were 391 (13.42%), followed by glaucoma 152 (5.2%), hypertensive 92 (3.1%) and diabetic 84 (2.8%) retinopathy, blepharitis 78 (2.6%), pterygium 69 (2.3%), Chronic dacrocystitis 41 (1.4%), refractive error 12 (0.4%), Age related macular degeneration ten (0.3%). Less common were phacotoxic uveitis eight (0.2%), corneal opacity five (0.1%) and Retinitis Pigmentosa three (0.1%).: Cataract, glaucoma were major ocular diseases seen in the study. Efforts aimed at reducing high prevalence of treatable or preventable morbidities such as cataract, glaucoma.

To assess color vision abnormalities in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients and associated risk factors. Materials and Methods: A prospective study was conducted for 3 months. Patients who is a known case of type 2 diabetes mellitus who presented to our OPD were included in our study. All patients underwent complete ophthalmologic examination which included visual acuity, color vision assessment using Pseudoisochromatic Ishihara chart, slit-lamp biomicroscopy, IOP and fundoscopy. Statistical analyses were performed using the statistical software SPSS for Windows, ver. 16.0. The results were expressed as mean ± standard deviation if the variables were continuous and as percentages if categorical. Results: The prevalence of color vision abnormalities among diabetics and associated risk factors was assessed. Conclusion:Various studies have been done to know the color vision abnormalities. We evaluated on the associated risk factors as well.

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