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. 2022 May;36(5):1129-1130.
doi: 10.1038/s41433-021-01590-2. Epub 2021 Jun 11.

Frugal retinal laser training simulation eyes

Obaid Kousha  1   2 , Blazej Staniszewski  3 , Juan Lopez Ulloa  4 , Sonali Tarafdar  3 , John Ellis  5 , Andrew Blaikie  5   4
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Frugal retinal laser training simulation eyes

Obaid Kousha et al. Eye (Lond). 2022 May.
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Conflict of interest statement

AB is seconded to the University of St Andrews from NHS Fife. The University owns a social enterprise subsidiary company, for which AB acts as an unpaid adviser. The social enterprise business sells the Arclight devices to users in high-resource countries with all profits being used to fund distribution and education exercises of the device in low-income countries via the Global Health Implementation team at the University of St Andrews. The other authors have no conflict of interest to declare.

Figures

Fig. 1
Fig. 1. Frugal retinal laser simulation eye.
a Three-dimensional fundus. b Simulation eye elements. c Mounted on slit lamp. d Appearance of the simulation eye during treatment.
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