Stockport Eye Centre
Stockport Eye Centre
Stockport Eye Centre
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INFORMATION FOR STUDENTS<br />
ATTENDING STOCKPORT EYE<br />
CENTRE COMMUNITY SIGN-UP<br />
PLACEMENT<br />
YEAR 3 STUDENTS (NME SEMESTER)<br />
Please send any suggestions for improving this placement to<br />
jacqueline.pass@manchester.ac.uk<br />
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Welcome to <strong>Stockport</strong> <strong>Eye</strong> <strong>Centre</strong><br />
We hope you enjoy your placement with us at the <strong>Eye</strong> <strong>Centre</strong> and gain lots of new<br />
knowledge that you will be able to apply here and during your subsequent placements.<br />
The <strong>Eye</strong> <strong>Centre</strong> is open from 7.30am until 6pm Monday to Friday and from 9am until<br />
1pm Saturday. An On Call Service is then in place whereby two ward nurses, two<br />
theatre nurses and two anaesthetic nurses are on call for the remainder of the<br />
weekend.<br />
The majority of Ophthalmic surgery is undertaken under local anaesthetic on a day<br />
case basis. However, there are some ophthalmic operations that require a general<br />
anaesthetic such as squint surgery, tabeculectomy and dacryosystorhinostomy.<br />
If any patients need to stay in the hospital due to a medical ophthalmic reason such as<br />
corneal abscess, severe post operative infection (endopthalmitis) or raised intra ocular<br />
pressure (acute closed angle glaucoma) a bed will need to be found by telephoning the<br />
bed manager. These such patients will be transferred to their designated ward every<br />
evening and transferred back to the <strong>Eye</strong> <strong>Centre</strong> every morning.<br />
Many of the clinic sessions held at the <strong>Eye</strong> <strong>Centre</strong> are nurse led such as the preoperative<br />
assessment clinics which are held every day.<br />
There are 12 theatre sessions per week and 1 session every Friday afternoon to<br />
facilitate a Carpal Tunnel Hand list.<br />
There are 5 laser lists per week.<br />
There are 2 Fluorescein Angiography clinics per week and 1 Photodynamic session per<br />
week held in OPDB setting.<br />
There is the facility for the doctors to arrange for patients to attend as <strong>Eye</strong> <strong>Centre</strong><br />
attenders but this requires prior arrangement.<br />
Patients seen at the <strong>Eye</strong> <strong>Centre</strong> as casualty patients do so by appointment only. The<br />
<strong>Eye</strong> <strong>Centre</strong> does not see any patients without an appointment. The <strong>Eye</strong> <strong>Centre</strong> is not a<br />
walk in department. These such patients would need to be examined in the Accident &<br />
Emergency Department.<br />
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