Optical coherence tomography (OCT) in unconscious and systemically unwell patients using a mobile OCT device: a pilot study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study aims to evaluate the feasibility of retinal imaging in critical care using a novel mobile optical coherence tomography (OCT) device. The Heidelberg SPECTRALIS FLEX module (Heidelberg Engineering, Heidelberg, Germany) is an OCT unit with a boom arm, enabling ocular OCT assessment in less mobile patients.

Design

We undertook an evaluation of the feasibility of using the SPECTRALIS FLEX for undertaking ocular OCT images in unconscious and critically ill patients.

Setting

This study was conducted in the critical care unit of a large tertiary referral unit in the United Kingdom.

Participants

13 systemically unwell patients admitted to the critical care unit were purposively sampled to enable evaluation in patients with a range of clinical states

SUBMITTER: Liu X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6858135 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature