plusoptix S04 - professional amblyopia screening for Babies

According to the Vision in Preschoolers Study (http://www.nei.nih.gov) vision disorders are the fourth most prevalent class of disability in the United States and the most prevalent handicapping conditions in childhood. Limited vision hinders a child's academic performance, athletic accomplishment, and professional perspectives. Many vision disorders may be cured successfully if detected and treated early but only 14% of preschool children receive a comprehensive eye exam. Vision screening provides basic prevention of amblyopia and assures that low vision due to refractive error and strabismus is not hindering mental and physical development to the remaining 86% of all children.

Why screening Babies?

Amblyopia can be prevented if the causes, i.e. refractive error and/or strabismus, are detected and treated early. A British study (British Medical Journal 324, 29 (2002)) shows that treatment success declines considerably after the age of three years.

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• Binocular measurement: Both eyes are measured simultaneously and therefore anisometropia is detected.
• Non-invasive measurement: No eye drops (cycloplegia) are needed to obtain a measurement.
• Non-contact alignment: The baby is seated relaxed on the laps of one parent and the measurement is taken from one meter distance (approx. 3 ft.).
• Measurement in a split second: It takes less than a second to obtain measurements (refraction in sphere, cylinder and axis, pupil diameter, inter occular distance and gaze direction) and the screening result pass or refer.
• Easy to use: The device is one-button-controlled and all measurement procedures are pre-programmed (autoshot) so that it can be used by qualified staff.
• Documentation: Each measurement is saved as a video file. Measurements and screening result can be printed in a "Screening Certificate" for parents records. Measurements can be printed on a self adhesiv label for doctor paper files or exported into patient computer database.

plusoptix PowerRef II - the measurement tool for refractive surgeons and scientists

• Dynamic of accomodation: Targets are offered at different distances to the eyes. The change in accomodation is measured in real time during the measurement process.
• Dynamic of pupil sizes: The size of the pupils can be measured in photopic, skotopic and mesopic conditions.
• Center of ablation: The reflex on the cornea is determined in relation to the underlaying pupil indicating the gaze direction of both eyes.
• Inter occular distance: The distance between both eyes is measured.
• Documentation of the measurements: All measurements can be saved as video files and exported into a Microsoft Excel spread sheet.

Information for parents

You can see your baby. Can your baby see you?

Did you know that Babies need to learn seeing as they learn walking and talking? Parents monitor their baby’s progress in walking and talking every day. They are near by in order to prevent it from falling during the first uncertain steps and they wait impatiently to hear the first syllables and words “mum” and “dad”.

But parents can neither see nor hear nor feel if vision (i.e. to seeing clearly with both eyes) is developing age appropriately or a vision disorder arises. Vision disorders reduce vision in later life and there is evidence that children having undetected vision disorders are more likely to fail at school.

Good vision is extremely important throughout lifetime for adults gathering 70% of all information through the eyes and many professions being restricted to applicants without vision disorders. The eyes are the most used sense of mankind.