Video Conferencing in the Intravitreal Injection Clinic in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

PURPOSE: To share a useful intervention to minimize risk of COVID-19 infection to both healthcare workers and patients in the eye clinic. METHODS: We present our experience of virtual, within-clinic remote visual acuity assessment to reduce the risk of infection with COVID-19. RESULTS: Along with st...

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Autores principales: Saedon, Habiba, Gould, Gemma, Begum, Minara, Aslam, Tariq M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Healthcare 2020
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7246960/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32451906
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40123-020-00262-w
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description PURPOSE: To share a useful intervention to minimize risk of COVID-19 infection to both healthcare workers and patients in the eye clinic. METHODS: We present our experience of virtual, within-clinic remote visual acuity assessment to reduce the risk of infection with COVID-19. RESULTS: Along with standard recommendations for personal protective equipment and hand hygiene to contain viral spread and treating only urgent cases, remote within-clinic visual acuity testing and consultations can be undertaken with minimal specialist equipment and appears to provide useful information whilst being acceptable to patients. CONCLUSION: Ophthalmology practice must adapt in order to combat COVID-19. This measure can easily be incorporated into daily practice to reduce both patient footfall within the department and close contact between patient and healthcare practitioners.
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spelling pubmed-72469602020-05-26 Video Conferencing in the Intravitreal Injection Clinic in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic Saedon, Habiba Gould, Gemma Begum, Minara Aslam, Tariq M. Ophthalmol Ther Brief Report PURPOSE: To share a useful intervention to minimize risk of COVID-19 infection to both healthcare workers and patients in the eye clinic. METHODS: We present our experience of virtual, within-clinic remote visual acuity assessment to reduce the risk of infection with COVID-19. RESULTS: Along with standard recommendations for personal protective equipment and hand hygiene to contain viral spread and treating only urgent cases, remote within-clinic visual acuity testing and consultations can be undertaken with minimal specialist equipment and appears to provide useful information whilst being acceptable to patients. CONCLUSION: Ophthalmology practice must adapt in order to combat COVID-19. This measure can easily be incorporated into daily practice to reduce both patient footfall within the department and close contact between patient and healthcare practitioners. Springer Healthcare 2020-05-25 2020-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7246960/ /pubmed/32451906 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40123-020-00262-w Text en © The Author(s) 2020 This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, which permits any non-commercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.
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