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Safe Slit-lamp Shield: Maintaining a balance between ergonomics and safety

Since the emergence of COVID pandemic, health workers have been facing major challenges every day. Ophthalmology practice has encountered countless modifications in the practice pattern not to jeopardize patient care and at the same time maintain all safety measures to reduce transmission. One such...

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Autores principales: Khadia, Anjali, Nachiappan, Sivagami, Kalita, Iva R, Singh, Harsh Vardhan, Vedachalam, Rajesh, Venkatesh, Rengaraj
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7774222/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33120649
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijo.IJO_2325_20
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author Khadia, Anjali
Nachiappan, Sivagami
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description Since the emergence of COVID pandemic, health workers have been facing major challenges every day. Ophthalmology practice has encountered countless modifications in the practice pattern not to jeopardize patient care and at the same time maintain all safety measures to reduce transmission. One such modification we made was the Safe Slit-Lamp Shield (SSS) which has been found to be extremely protective in differentiation to other available shield. Although SSS has a larger surface area when compared to already available shields, it won't compromise the comfort of the clinician at the same time gives satisfactory protection.
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spelling pubmed-77742222021-01-07 Safe Slit-lamp Shield: Maintaining a balance between ergonomics and safety Khadia, Anjali Nachiappan, Sivagami Kalita, Iva R Singh, Harsh Vardhan Vedachalam, Rajesh Venkatesh, Rengaraj Indian J Ophthalmol Innovation in Ophthalmology Since the emergence of COVID pandemic, health workers have been facing major challenges every day. Ophthalmology practice has encountered countless modifications in the practice pattern not to jeopardize patient care and at the same time maintain all safety measures to reduce transmission. One such modification we made was the Safe Slit-Lamp Shield (SSS) which has been found to be extremely protective in differentiation to other available shield. Although SSS has a larger surface area when compared to already available shields, it won't compromise the comfort of the clinician at the same time gives satisfactory protection. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020-11 2020-10-26 /pmc/articles/PMC7774222/ /pubmed/33120649 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijo.IJO_2325_20 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Indian Journal of Ophthalmology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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