Optimising telemedicine in ophthalmology during the COVID-19 pandemic.

摘要: Ophthalmology, an outpatient surgical specialty, depends on regular in-person encounters to manage complex eye disease. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has brought about unprecedented challenges in how we take care of our patients. At Vanderbilt University Medical Center, have gone great lengths implement expeditiously a telemedicine platform for safely and securely evaluating patients during the pandemic. Since implementing live videoconference appointments late March, 840 received ophthalmic 12-week period among all subspecialties at Eye Institute. Of these, majority (79.6%) were either return or postoperative visits. Live telehealth visits more amenable certain subspecialties, with paediatrics, neuro-ophthalmology oculoplastics making up 80.5% As demonstrated through this model initial experience, video is sustainable safe delivery approach extend COVID-19 even post