Binocular Indirect Ophthalmoscope
Binocular Indirect Ophthalmoscope
To expand the examination repertoire of eye care professionals in resource poor settings the team has developed a pocket sized binocular indirect ophthalmoscope.
A comprehensive study demonstrated it to be equivalent in quality of view to a traditional more expensive spectacle mounted device.
Comparative evaluation of a new frugal binocular indirect ophthalmoscope. Obaid Kousha, Sharma Ganesananthan, Bayan Shahin et al.
Work is on-going in evaluating the impact of both DR & ROP workshops amongst mid-level eye care workers using the BIO and the tailored hemi-spherical simulation eyes described above.
This tool now opens the possibility of delivering scalable diabetic (DR) and retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) screening in regions where there is currently no service provision.
In addition, we hope to report on a study soon from Indonesia comparing the device to digital retinal imaging.
