LETTER
Retinal Self Examination “Selfies” During a Pandemic
Ben O’Keeffe1, Sheng Chiong Hong2, Renoh Chalakkal3, 4, *
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2021Volume: 15
First Page: 206
Last Page: 208
Publisher ID: TOOPHTJ-15-206
DOI: 10.2174/1874364102115010206
Article History:
Received Date: 6/1/2021Revision Received Date: 19/6/2021
Acceptance Date: 29/7/2021
Electronic publication date: 10/11/2021
Collection year: 2021
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
The advancement of smartphone camera technology allowing a smaller, high-resolution forward-facing camera on a smartphone allows a user to see the image they are about to capture of themselves at arm’s length, therefore taking a ‘selfie’ image of themselves. The idea of a ‘selfie’ in a clinical setting is novel, but the exploration of this as a concept has been made necessary as COVID-19 infection and transmission risk is based on the proximity, that is, a susceptible person coming near to the person, who is infected. This report discusses an innovative smartphone-based device, oDocs nun IR, a retinal imaging device, as a tool for taking selfie retinal images/videos by patients, that could be later analyzed by the specialists/optometrists over the teleophthalmology portal.
