The Arclight Ophthalmoscope: A Reliable Low-Cost Alternative to the Standard Direct Ophthalmoscope [PDF]
Journal of Ophthalmology, 2015 Background. The Arclight ophthalmoscope is a low-cost alternative to standard direct ophthalmoscopes. This study compared the Arclight ophthalmoscope with the Heine K180 direct ophthalmoscope to evaluate its reliability in assessing the vertical cup disc
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Does the COVID-19 Pandemic Spell the End for the Direct Ophthalmoscope? [PDF]
Ophthalmology and Therapy, 2020 Despite advances in ophthalmic diagnostics, the direct ophthalmoscope remains a key clinical skill taught to medical students and is the tool of choice for retina examination among non-ophthalmic physicians.
Kendrick C. Shih +4 more
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Eyesi direct ophthalmoscope simulator: an effective training tool for medical undergraduates [PDF]
BMC Medical EducationIntroduction Non-ophthalmologists often lack sufficient operational training to use a direct ophthalmoscope proficiently, resulting in a global deficit of basic ophthalmological skills among general practitioners.
Canying Liu +8 more
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Evaluation of primary healthcare worker training to screen children under 5 years of age with a low-cost alternative to the direct ophthalmoscope, the ‘Arclight’, as part of the Integrated Management of Newborn and Childhood Illness (IMNCI) programme in Tanzania [PDF]
BMJ Paediatrics OpenObjective To evaluate the integration of childhood eye screening with the Arclight direct ophthalmoscope into an already existing WHO/UNICEF Integrated Management of Newborn and Childhood Illness (IMNCI) programme in Tanzania.Design Prospective ...
Andrew Blaikie +6 more
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Smartphone ophthalmoscope as a tool in teaching direct ophthalmoscopy: a crossover randomized controlled trial [PDF]
Medical Education Online, 2023 To evaluate the effectiveness of smartphone ophthalmoscope (SO) in teaching ophthalmoscopy, compared with direct ophthalmoscope (DO). In this cross-over study, 45 final-year medical students attending sessions at a single institution were randomly ...
Hongxi Wang +4 more
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Utility of a smartphone assisted direct ophthalmoscope camera for a general practitioner in screening of diabetic retinopathy at a primary health care center. [PDF]
Indian J Ophthalmol, 2021 Purpose: To assess the use of smartphone-based direct ophthalmoscope photography for screening of diabetic retinopathy (DR) in known diabetic patients walking into a general practitioner's clinic and referring them to a vitreoretinal specialist for ...
Shah D +9 more
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The additional role of unmodified iPhone X as a direct ophthalmoscope
Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, 2019 Amar Pujari +3 more
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The effectiveness of smartphone ophthalmoscope compared to direct ophthalmoscope as a teaching tool
The Asia Pacific Scholar, 2022 Introduction: The direct ophthalmoscope is a standard tool for fundus examination but is underutilised in practice due to technical difficulties. Although the smartphone ophthalmoscope has been demonstrated to improve fundus abnormality detection, there ...
Amelah Abdul Qader +2 more
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Identification of amblyogenic risk factors with the Brückner reflex test using the low-cost Arclight direct ophthalmoscope. [PDF]
Eye (Lond), 2021 Tuteja SY, Blaikie A, Kekunnaya R.
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A new technique for teaching the fundal reflex test and fundoscopy: 'screen casting' with the Arclight direct ophthalmoscope attached to the camera of a mobile phone. [PDF]
Eye (Lond), 2023 Staniszewski B +4 more
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