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DIRECT OPHTHALMOSCOPY

 

1- Introduce yourself                                                                

2- Take verbal consent                                                              

3- Explain to the patient appropriately                                               

4- Ask for ambient room light                                                  

5- Use an appropriate distant fixation target                                 

6- Arrange appropriate lens with RE-COSS dial                     

7- Perform distant direct ophthalmoscopy at 9 inches/23cm          

8- Use your right eye for patient’s right eye                          

9- Use your left eye for patient’s left eye                               

10 Use RE-KOSS dial for correct lens position                

11 Ask patient to look into the light for macula            

12 Make appropriate movement to search possible periphery in all quadrants                                                     

13 Use red free light  for vessels (seen as dark lines) 

14 Uses visuoscope for fixation                                        

15 Pay thanks to patient                                                    

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