Clinical Comparison Of Intraocular Pressure Measurements Using Goldmann And Proview Tonometry.
Digital Document
Preview
Document
Metadata
Content type |
Content type
|
||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Collection(s) |
Collection(s)
|
||||||||||
Title |
Title
Title
Clinical Comparison Of Intraocular Pressure Measurements Using Goldmann And Proview Tonometry.
|
||||||||||
Resource Type |
Resource Type
|
||||||||||
Description |
Description
The Proview tonometer (Bausch & Lomb, Rochester, NY), the new pressure
phosphene tonometer, would allow glaucoma patients to monitor intraocular pressure (lOP) by themselves and at various times of the day. The diumal variation in one's lOP that is known to exist can play an important role in the management of glaucoma. Unfortunately, there has never been an efficient way to self-monitor lOP. However, the Proview tonometer, if proven an accurate means of IOP measurement, would provide doctors insight into the patients diurnal variations and allow for the most appropriate medical management of the disease. A total of 50 non-glaucoma patients (100 eyes) were measured over a 4-week period. Each subject was thoroughly instructed on the use of the Proview Tonometer by an examiner. The subject was then allowed to "practice" seeing the pressure phosphene by using their finger in place of the Proview Tonometer. After each subject acknowledged to a complete understanding of the procedure, they were to perform Proview tonometry on themselves, with one reading being taken on each eye. The same examiner who gave the instructions recorded the lOP measurements. Goldmann tonometry was then performed one time on each eye of every subject. This was done by a different examiner and the results recorded. There was no communication between the different examiners regarding the results of each method. |
||||||||||
Handle |
Handle
http://hdl.handle.net/2323/4689
|
||||||||||
Persons |
Persons
Author (aut): Kerns, Joy A.
Author (aut): Bar, Ann K.
|
||||||||||
Genre |
Genre
|
||||||||||
Subject | |||||||||||
Origin Information |
Origin Information
|
||||||||||
Note |
Note
This paper is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Optometry. 7 pages.
|
||||||||||
Related Item |
Related Item
|
||||||||||
Language |
Language
|
Language |
English
|
---|---|
Name |
bitstream_11921.pdf
|
MIME type |
application/pdf
|
File size |
1121996
|
Media Use | |
Authored on |
|
Download
Document