How Eye-Care Professionals are Taking Precautions During Covid-19
In this COVID era, everyone is scared to examine patients. So we went through guidelines issued by Govt of India and various ophthalmological societies and framed a working protocol which has been depicted in the video stepwise: • Residents and faculty members are being given practical training, motivated and counseled to render their services in this hour of crisis with confidence. • As the patient enters OPD, a mask is given at the entry gate and his hands are being sanitized. • Special arrangements have been made by dividing the examination chamber into two parts with a transparent plastic sheet, so that patient remains in one chamber and examiner in another chamber. This way in spite of close proximity with the patient, the risk of infection gets reduced. • The patient is then examined on the slit lamp with the attached breath shield, which acts as a barrier for droplet infection. • To examine a COVID-19 patient, doctors use PPE. After examination, slit lamp and other inst...
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