Sounds like a really sweet setup Katie. I do typically prefer to have that
sort of ability while at the device, but just not always possible or
feasible.
The targets inside the units are now so powerful, it seems rare when really
darkening the room can improve the patient fixation substantially. That
said, obviously all practices are differing in patient populations disease
demographics.
Thanks gang.
Stuart Alfred / 317-517-9455 / stuart.alfred@xxxxxxxxx
On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 12:05 PM Katie Lachut <katie.lachut@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
We have a foot petal in our testing rooms so we can wait until patients
sit down to turn the lights off, and pop them back on when they're
finished! With appropriate warning, of course. 😉
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Seems to me the lights off is a vestigial nod to the days of squinting
through an eyepiece
We normally keep all rooms at a moderate light level- enough for patients
to see; low enough that the bright lights of a hospital environment don’t
induce us to start confessing secret thoughts!
Denice
Denice Barsness, CRA, COMT, CDOS, FOPS
CPMC Dept of Ophthalmology/ The Eye Institute
Ophthalmic Diagnostic Services
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For years now I've debated in my head:
on high volume Cirrus OCT clinics, is it worth the effort to be turning
the room lights (fluorescent and or tungsten), off or down when low
vision/AMD patients are walking in and out of the room and testing every 5
minutes.
How degradative are ambient wavelengths of light (fluor/tung) on
posterior OCT imaging using the Cirrus?
My view, I don't observe any discernible 'noise' and have defaulted to
mostly leaving lights up, unless it is a unique case of some sort.
Your all's thoughts, please?
Stu
Stuart Alfred / 317-517-9455 / stuart.alfred@xxxxxxxxx
