Drive-through pressure checks offer effective glaucoma monitoring during pandemic

Drive-through IOP checks allow safe management of high-risk glaucoma patients during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, according to a poster presented at the virtual American Academy of Ophthalmology annual meeting.
Taylor Phelps, MD, and colleagues at LSU Department of Ophthalmology, New Orleans, set up a drive-through checkpoint, measuring IOP of 42 patients over a 3-week period.
“The goal of this project was to look at what we could to do to follow up on glaucoma patients, who, even during a global pandemic need to be followed, and have their pressure checked to (Read more...)

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