126: Handle the Pressure: Integrating Glaucoma Care in Optometric Practice

As a primary care profession, optometry has long been ideally positioned to diagnose often-asymptomatic ocular disease, including glaucoma. With scopes of practice evolving to allow a greater number of optometrists to independently treat glaucoma, the role (and importance) of the profession has increased even more. This lecture will review salient points of integrating the diagnosis and management of patients with glaucoma into a primary care optometric practice.