作者
Xiaoxuan Liu, Aditya Uday Kale, Nicholas Capewell, Nicholas Talbot, Sumiya Ahmed, Pearse A Keane, Susan Mollan, Antonio Belli, Richard J Blanch, Tonny Veenith, Alastair K Denniston
发表日期
2019/11/1
期刊
BMJ open
卷号
9
期号
11
页码范围
e030882
出版商
British Medical Journal Publishing Group
简介
Objective
This study aims to evaluate the feasibility of retinal imaging in critical care using a novel mobile optical coherence tomography (OCT) device. The Heidelberg SPECTRALIS FLEX module (Heidelberg Engineering, Heidelberg, Germany) is an OCT unit with a boom arm, enabling ocular OCT assessment in less mobile patients.
Design
We undertook an evaluation of the feasibility of using the SPECTRALIS FLEX for undertaking ocular OCT images in unconscious and critically ill patients.
Setting
This study was conducted in the critical care unit of a large tertiary referral unit in the United Kingdom.
Participants
13 systemically unwell patients admitted to the critical care unit were purposively sampled to enable evaluation in patients with a range of clinical states.
Outcome measures
The primary outcome was the feasibility of acquiring clinically interpretable OCT scans on a consecutive series of patients. The …
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