Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been an urgent need to develop protective measures to ensure patient and healthcare worker safety in clinical situations. Direct/monocular ophthalmoscopy is particularly difficult to perform safely, given the very close proximity of the patient and the clinician. However, ophthalmoscopy is an important and on occasion an irreplaceable element of the neurological examination. It is particularly important for identifying papilloedema in headache, optic disc oedema and/or other retinal findings in acute visual loss, temporal disc atrophy in suspected multiple sclerosis or simply for reassuring someone with primary headache where the examination is otherwise normal or there are only superficial optic nerve drusen.1 Using an ophthalmoscope when wearing adequate personal protective equipment can be challenging. From our experience, it is impractical to visualise the optic fundi while wearing …

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COVID-19 低危患者的眼底镜检查

自 COVID-19 大流行开始以来，迫切需要制定保护措施，以确保患者和医护人员在临床情况下的安全。鉴于患者和临床医生非常接近，直接/单眼检眼镜特别难以安全地进行。然而，检眼镜是神经系统检查的重要部分，有时也是不可替代的元素。这对于识别头痛中的视乳头水肿、视盘水肿和/或急性视力丧失中的其他视网膜发现、怀疑多发性硬化症中的颞盘萎缩或仅仅为了让原发性头痛患者放心（检查其他方面正常或只有浅表性头痛）尤为重要视神经玻璃疣。1 在佩戴足够的个人防护设备时使用检眼镜可能具有挑战性。根据我们的经验，在佩戴时可视化眼底是不切实际的……