Clinical and Experimental Optometry 84.2 March 2001

The oxygen permeability of these materi-als is such that corneal physiological indi-cators remain essentially unaltered during wear.1 The alleviation of corneal physi-ological stress during closed-eye wear is a long-awaited breakthrough that now sees experts advocate careful use of this mode of wear in practice.2 A general lack of experience with CW and the absence of explicit practice guidelines presents prac-titioners with a challenge in adopting this new mode of care. ORIGINAL PAPER Proposed practice guidelines for continuous contact lens wea