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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Understanding and caring for the direct ophthalmoscope [PDF]
Community Eye Health Journal, 2016 A direct ophthalmoscope, or simply an ophthalmoscope, is a hand-held optical instrument used to inspect the fundus or back of the eye.
Ismael Cordero
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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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COMPARISON BETWEEN THE PANOPTIC OPHTHALMOSCOPE AND THE CONVENTIONAL DIRECT OPHTHALMOSCOPE IN THE DETECTION OF SIGHT THREATENING DIABETIC RETINOPATHY: THE KUCHING DIABETIC EYE STUDY [PDF]
Malaysian Family Physician, 2010 Objective: To determine the sensitivity and specificity of the conventional direct ophthalmoscope and the PanOptic ophthalmoscope in the detection of sight threatening retinopathy, as well as the “Ease of Use” of these equipments. Methods: 200 diabetics,
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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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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 ...
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Smart phone ophthalmoscopy: a potential replacement for the direct ophthalmoscope. [PDF]
Eye (Lond), 2018 The purpose of this study is to evaluate a commercially available smartphone ophthalmoscope, D-EYE, as compared with the direct ophthalmoscope when used by a cohort of final-year medical students in a prospective study.Two-hundred fundal examinations were performed on the eyes of 10 mannequins featuring 5 unique fundal images by 20 final-year medical ...
Mamtora S +4 more
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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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