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A handheld device enables pediatric and primary care professionals to quickly and accurately screen for unequal eye performance problems including strabismus and amblyopia permitting an earlier diagnosis and institution of corrective therapy.  Investigators at NIH’s National Eye Institute in collaboration with Kaiser Permanente Southern California studied 300 children, ages 2 to 6 years, with no known eye disorders.

 

Comparing the electronic device’s performance with the gold standard, an exam by a pediatric ophthalmologist, showed that the screener properly flagged 100% of children with improper eye performance while over-diagnosing issues in only 15% of cases.

 

The screening is rapid requiring only 28 seconds to position the child, hold the device 14 inches from the child’s eyes, have the child fixate on the smiley face, allow the device to laser scan both retinas for subtle misalignment, and report the results on the LED panel.

 

The device, called the Blinq, was co-invented by pediatric ophthalmologist David Hunter MD at Boston Children’s Hospital.

 

https://www.jaapos.org/article/S1091-8531(21)00174-9/fulltext

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34246763/

 

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