NEW Defined Guidance for the use of Serum Eye Drops

29 November 2017

Ocular Surface Disease with dry eye is a global public-health problem with significant impact on quality of life. Serum Eye Drops (SED) contain many nutritional factors that aid therapeutics. Across the NHS there is variation in practice, inequality of access to SED service and no regulated monitoring of outcome. This guideline sets out defined guidance for the use of Serum Eye Drops, monitoring of clinical and patient-reported outcomes to improve patient morbidity and standards of care.  Download the open source Eye published paper http://rdcu.be/yFEL

Rauz S, Koay SY, Foot B, Kaye SB, Figueiredo F, Burdon MA, Dancey E, Chandrasekar A, Lomas R. The Royal College of Ophthalmologists guidelines on serum eye drops for the treatment of severe ocular surface disease: full report. Eye (Lond). 2017 Nov 17. doi: 10.1038/eye.2017.209. [Epub ahead of print] No abstract available. PMID: 29148532.