Strategies to prevent transmission in ophthalmology outpatient clinics

  • Screen for fever at the point -of -entry and elicit a history of travel to affected areas during the incubation period, occupation, contact of suspected or confirmed cases, cluster of cases
  • Those positive for #1 with no ophthalmic emergency, should be triaged to a designated medical facility
  • Those positive for #1 with an ophthalmic emergency should be seen by the staff geared in personal protective equipment in an isolated designated examination room with an isolated waiting area
  • Patients with conjunctivitis, with or without #1, should be seen by the staff geared in personal protective equipment in an isolated designated examination room with an isolated waiting area
  • Barrier care including N95 masks for all physically close ophthalmic procedures and universal precautions for all patients; decontamination of applanation prisms, contact gonioscopes, laser contact lenses, B-scan and ultrasonic biomicroscope probes etc.