The proposed standards, which are inching closer toward enactment, would require that optometrists receive 32 hours of additional instruction on eye surgery, amounting to “as little as a couple of weekend courses,” the release states.
The legislature passed enabling legislation for the standards in February. The law allows optometrists to perform various eye surgeries using lasers, scalpels, needles, ultrasound, ionizing radiation and tools that burn and freeze tissue, in order to treat conditions such as potentially cancerous eyelid tumors, glaucoma and post-cataract surgery complications.
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