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Practice Guideline
. 2020 Jun;68(6):962-973.
doi: 10.4103/ijo.IJO_1404_20.

Evolving consensus on managing vitreo-retina and uvea practice in post-COVID-19 pandemic era

Vishali Gupta  1 , Anand Rajendran  2 , Raja Narayanan  3 , Shobhit Chawla  4 , Atul Kumar  5 , Mahesh Shanmugam Palanivelu  6 , N S Muralidhar  7 , Chaitra Jayadev  8 , Rajeev Pappuru  3 , Manoj Khatri  9 , Manisha Agarwal  10 , Ajay Aurora  11 , Pramod Bhende  12 , Muna Bhende  12 , Prashant Bawankule  13 , Pukhraj Rishi  12 , Anand Vinekar  8 , Hemant Singh Trehan  14 , Jyotirmay Biswas  12 , Rupesh Agarwal  15 , S Natarajan  16 , Lalit Verma  17 , Kim Ramasamy  18 , A Giridhar  19 , Ekta Rishi  12 , Dinesh Talwar  17 , Avinash Pathangey  20 , Rajvardhan Azad  21 , Santosh G Honavar  22
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Practice Guideline

Evolving consensus on managing vitreo-retina and uvea practice in post-COVID-19 pandemic era

Vishali Gupta et al. Indian J Ophthalmol. 2020 Jun.

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought new challenges to the health care community. Many of the super-speciality practices are planning to re-open after the lockdown is lifted. However there is lot of apprehension in everyone's mind about conforming practices that would safeguard the patients, ophthalmologists, healthcare workers as well as taking adequate care of the equipment to minimize the damage. The aim of this article is to develop preferred practice patterns, by developing a consensus amongst the lead experts, that would help the institutes as well as individual vitreo-retina and uveitis experts to restart their practices with confidence. As the situation remains volatile, we would like to mention that these suggestions are evolving and likely to change as our understanding and experience gets better. Further, the suggestions are for routine patients as COVID-19 positive patients may be managed in designated hospitals as per local protocols. Also these suggestions have to be implemented keeping in compliance with local rules and regulations.

Keywords: COVID-19; Uveitis; Vitreoretina; preferred practice patterns; retinopathy of premat.

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Flow chart demonstrating the triage during teleconsult
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(a) Patient self-retracting her lower lid during instillation of dilator drop. (b) Using cotton tip applicator to retract lower lid
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Face shield mounted on Indirect Ophthalmoscope
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Cling film to wrap the various ophthalmic lenses
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Application of laser without cling film (left) and with cling film (right)
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