Impact on refractive surgery due to increasing use of personal protection equipment: Insights from EUROCOVCAT group
| Autor: | Isabel Prieto, Ozlem Evren Kemer, Cian Gildea, Robert Rejdak, Sandrine Zweifel, Mario Damiano Toro, Arthur B. Cummings, Daniele Tognetto, Antoine P. Brézin, Miguel A. Teus, Boris Malyugin, Omid Kermani |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Cummings, Ab, Gildea, C, Brézin, Ap, Malyugin, Be, Evren Kemer, O, Kermani, O, Prieto, I, Rejdak, R, Teus, Ma, Tognetto, D, Zweifel, S, Toro, Md, University of Zurich, Toro, Mario D, Cummings, Arthur B, Gildea, Cian, Brézin, Antoine P, Malyugin, Boris E, Evren Kemer, Ozlem, Kermani, Omid, Prieto, Isabel, Rejdak, Robert, Teus, Miguel A, Tognetto, Daniele, Zweifel, Sandrine |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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10018 Ophthalmology Clinic
refractive lens exchange medicine.medical_treatment media_common.quotation_subject COVID-19 pandemic LASIK Mask wearing cataract surgery fogging spectacles refractive surgery Communicable Disease Control Humans Pandemics Personal Protective Equipment SARS-CoV-2 COVID-19 Refractive Surgical Procedures 610 Medicine & health Masking (Electronic Health Record) Hygiene Refractive surgery Pandemic medicine Personal protective equipment media_common Social distance Editorials General Medicine 2731 Ophthalmology Independence Ophthalmology fogging spectacle Optometry Psychology Psychosocial Human |
| Zdroj: | European Journal of Ophthalmology |
| ISSN: | 1724-6016 1120-6721 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/11206721211018641 |
| Popis: | Since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 to be a pandemic on 11th March 2020, changes to social and sanitary practices have included significant issues in access and management of eye care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, the fear of loss, coupled with social distancing, lockdown, economic instability, and uncertainty, have led to a significant psychosocial impact that will have to be addressed. In the current COVID-19 pandemic, personal protective equipment such as face masks or face coverings have become a daily necessity. While “mass masking” along with hand hygiene and social distancing became more widespread, new issues began to emerge – particularly in those who wore spectacles as a means of vision correction. As we began to see routine patients again after the first lockdown had been lifted, many patients visited our clinics for refractive surgery consultations with a primary motivating factor of wanting spectacle independence due to the fogging of their spectacles as a result of wearing a mask. In this article, we report on new emerging issues in eye care due to the widespread use of masks and on the new unmet need in the corneal and cataract refractive surgery fields. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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