Category: Clinical Workflow

You have a patient who can’t get to the lane — sedated in the ICU, a toddler who won’t hold still, a resident in a nursing facility, someone you’re screening in the field. A table-mounted slit lamp is the gold standard, but it assumes the patient can sit up, put their chin in the rest, and stay there. When that assumption breaks, a handheld slit lamp is what actually lets you do the exam.

Continue reading When a Handheld Slit Lamp Earns Its Place: Bedside, ICU, and Field Exams

You’re standing up a screening program for a school district or an early-intervention site, and the vision screener you pick decides how many kids you can actually get through in a morning. Pick wrong and you’re fighting battery life, glare, and squirming three-year-olds. Here’s what separates a device that works in the field from one that stays in the closet.

Continue reading Vision Screener for School and Early-Intervention Programs: What to Look For

You have a patient in the chair whose cornea won’t cooperate — a graft, a scar, heavy edema, or a kid who won’t hold still at the slit lamp — and your Goldmann reading is a guess. That’s the exact gap the Diaton tonometer fills. It measures intraocular pressure through the eyelid, so the cornea stops being the problem. Here’s when that actually matters and when it doesn’t.

Continue reading Diaton Transpalpebral Tonometer: When Through-the-Lid IOP Makes Sense

You’re trying to stand up a diabetic retinopathy screening program, and the math already worries you: a large share of your diabetic patients aren’t getting their annual retinal exam, and every missed screen is a preventable case of vision loss walking out the door. The equipment decision is where most programs stall. Here’s how to make it without overbuying.

Continue reading How to Set Up a Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Program: Equipment and Workflow