How to use an ophthalmoscope | 合法醫療器材資訊網

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It is best to examine the patients left eye with your own left eye and right eye with your own right eye—this takes practice. Try to keep your other eye open. Certainly, in an examination, such as for membership of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP) part 2, you shouldnt close your other eye while examining the retina.⇑[1]

Place your hand on the patients forehead so that your fingers are splayed but your thumb is on the upper lid. This is important as you will use your thumb to hold the patients lid open and also the joint of your flexed thumb is exactly where your forehead needs to end up.

What am I looking for?

Red reflex

Media opacities obscure the red reflex (corneal scars, cataract and vitreous haemorrhage, and asteroid hyalosis).

Optic disc

Look for optic disc size, colour (pallor, conge...