Avoiding use of lid speculum and indentation reduced infantile stress during retinopathy of prematurity examinations.

Asimina MataftsiMaria LithoxopoulouAikaterini K SeliniotakiPersefoni TalimtziEirini OustoglouElisavet DiamantiVasiliki SoubasiNikolaos ZiakasAnna-Bettina Haidich

Published in: Acta ophthalmologica (2021)

Our study suggests that the use of speculum and indentation should be reserved for the few cases where fundus visualization is insufficient for excluding the presence of severe ROP.

Keyphrases

atomic force microscopy
early onset
diabetic retinopathy
mass spectrometry
stress induced
high resolution
optical coherence tomography