Reduce hospital infection
Aidan Hanratty
Published: Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Here is a simple method how to create a barrier to reduce the risk of droplet infection transmission between the patient and ophthalmologist made of A4 plastic folder supplied to EuroTimes by Dr Pavel Stodulka, Czech Republic.
Dr John Kanellopoulos MD, Greece, also shows in this video how to make yourself a universal slit-lamp and microscope shield for eye care professionals: ophthalmologists, optometrists. It will make very close-up encounters of examining patients safer for some of the direct droplet spread from talking, sneezing and or coughing.
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK2pwq8_bLA[/embed]
Dr Soosan Jacob, MD, India, in a separate video, hows how to make a slit lamp breath protector.
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXm624pBDUM[/embed]
Dr John Kanellopoulos MD, Greece, also shows in this video how to make yourself a universal slit-lamp and microscope shield for eye care professionals: ophthalmologists, optometrists. It will make very close-up encounters of examining patients safer for some of the direct droplet spread from talking, sneezing and or coughing.
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK2pwq8_bLA[/embed]
Dr Soosan Jacob, MD, India, in a separate video, hows how to make a slit lamp breath protector.
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXm624pBDUM[/embed]
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