Remote monitoring device detects AMD progression - Ophthalmology Times

Reviewed by Angela Christine Yim, BA; and Yannis Mantas Paulus, MD, FACS

A handheld, standalone instrumentality provides easy, fast, and comfy distant monitoring for patients with adust age-related macular degeneration (AMD), according to Angela Yim, BA; and Yannis Mantas Paulus, MD, FACS. Yim is simply a pupil astatine the University of Michigan Medical School successful Ann Arbor. Paulus is the Helmut F. Stern Career Development Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and an subordinate prof successful the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and Biomedical Engineering astatine University of Michigan Health Kellogg Eye Center. The investigators tested the instrumentality successful a objective setting.

Cross-sectional survey of instrumentality use

Patients with AMD who were 50 years oregon older participated successful a proceedings of the instrumentality astatine the Kellogg Eye Center outpatient retina session pursuing Investigational Review Board support by the University of Michigan.

After utilizing the device, patients completed a instrumentality survey and the System Usability Scale survey. The superior result was the investigating duration, and the secondary result was the patient-reported usability and comfortableness portion engaged with the device, the investigators said.

Thirty-one patients (mean age, 77.4 years) completed the survey and 1 diligent withdrew aft completing the study. The patients were evenly divided by sex (50% men, 50% women).

Yim reported that the mean full investigating clip was conscionable supra 2 minutes (126 seconds with a modular deviation [SD] of 56 seconds) and the mean System Usability Scale people was 77.7 (SD, 11.9), indicating the instrumentality had casual usability.

The immense bulk of the patients, 97%, reported that some the clip required to usage the instrumentality and the easiness of usage of the instrumentality were acceptable; 90% of patients said the instrumentality was comfy to use.

Based connected the surveys, this instrumentality seems to person a promising aboriginal for location monitoring of AMD. Being handheld makes it rapid, easy, and comfy for patients to usage to show their AMD. The investigators judge that the usability demonstrated by the instrumentality supports further objective trials to show the reliable detection of AMD progression.

AMD is simply a starring origin of blindness successful the world, Paulus said, noting that the bulk of imaginativeness nonaccomplishment occurs astatine the modulation from adust to bedewed AMD. Timely recognition of this modulation is captious to initiate anti-VEGF treatment.

“This novel, handheld instrumentality utilizing signifier favoritism hyperacuity is comfortable, easy, and speedy to use, requiring lone 2 minutes successful this objective validation among adust AMD patients.” Paulus concluded.

Angela Yim, BA

E: ayim@med.umich.edu

Yim has nary fiscal involvement successful this technology. She is simply a aesculapian pupil astatine the University of Michigan Medical School.

Yannis Mantas Paulus, MD

E: ypaulus@med.umich.edu

Paulus is an inventor connected a submitted University of Michigan patent exertion (42904767) titled “Apparatus for investigating age-related macular degeneration and method of utilizing the same.”

He is the Helmut F. Stern Career Development Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and an subordinate prof successful the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and Biomedical Engineering astatine Kellogg Eye Center, University of Michigan Health, Ann Arbor.