How to Use a Slit Lamp | Explained by an Ophthalmologist
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- Опубліковано 4 лип 2024
- In this video, I'll take you how to use a slit lamp. This video will be an intro to using the slit lamp. It will be helpful for those who are new to the field of ophthalmology or optometry. It will also be helpful if you're in medical school or about to do an away rotation or elective rotation in ophthalmology and want to know the basics on how to use the slit lamp before you hit the clinics. This video is just for basics. A later video will address the exam itself. I hope that all the doctors, med students, residents, optometrists, and ophthalmologists out there find this helpful. Don't be intimidated by the slit lamp; it may seem like a lot but you can definitely learn it.
New Optometry (OD) student here, I found this video very helpful!
Exactly what I was looking for to know my way around the slit lamp for my emerg rotation! Thank you!
I'm starting my Ophthal Residency in a few weeks and this is the video I needed most. Kudos Dr Zac 👏🏻
Sure thing. Glad it helped. Good luck on your rotation!
Hi! How is your residency going? Tomorrow I’m starting mine!
Yes! 8 point exam please! I'm studying as a technician to assist the doctor and this video was exactly what I needed to get started and I'll keep it as reference.
Planning a whole series on this but working on getting a slit lamp camera to do this
I chose ophthalmology in the first month of my internship year for no reason, but literally now at the end of this month ophthalmology is my choice till now for my residency , and your videos are extremely helpful
Nicely explained, especially for an AE physician like me. Every thing that I need to know about the basics of a slit lamp is here. I do sincerely congratulate you for this high quality professional production. I hope I can get more videos that you have or you will produce. Many thanks.
Thank you! I plan to let making content to help other ophtho enthusiasts!
Yes, please make more videos! And even more detail! It is sooo helpful!
This is incredibly helpful as I could be about to start my residency in ophtalmology! Please do more videos like these
I'm an optometry student i leart more than our college teach so thnk you soo much keep making such informative vedio in lyman language
Thank you!! I've needed a video like this!
Thanks a lot! This is one of the best videos I've seen about the use of a slit lamp!
That’s very kind! Thank you!
Amazing video Dr. Zac! As an aspiring ophthalmologist this was super helpful. An eye exam video would be amazing - keep up the awesome content 😊
I will definitely work on that video! Thanks for following and good luck on becoming an ophthalmologist!!
If you want another video...
Ofc doc ! This is so detailed and informative !
I’m glad it was helpful. I will try to make more teaching videos like this.
This video is really helpful to know the basics....
For the past 10 years i had been wondering what it looked like for the doctor but didn't know the name of this so im glad youtube recommend me this.
I have uveitis and catorex and cornea scaring and sorry im not a doctor so don't know how to spell them
I'm a med student currently on an ophtho rotation and this was super helpful!!! Thank you so much!
Sure thing! Glad it helped.
I clean slit lamps all day (I’m a tech and scribe) and had no idea how amazing they are! I’m glad you showed this. Even more excited to start Optometry school!
Best of luck in optometry school!
This video is so informational for me. Thank you doctor!😊
an excellent introduction to the use of slit lamp
Your videos are very informative .please keep on making more videos .
Hey this video was great! So helpful. Please do the 8 point video!
Thank you so much! So clearly explained and easy to follow!
Of course
Great video! Very informative for an NP in Occupational Medicine. Thanks!!
Of course!
Hello there this video seems to be very informative. I am not in the medical field myself however as a patient who sees an eye doctor on a regular basis AKA ophthalmologist. It was very nice to see some of the behind the scenes of just exactly what's going on during my eye exams. I've always wondered what the different colored lights were. The slit lamp seems to be the primary instrument in an eye doctors office. Anyways thanks for sharing this was very interesting to watch.
I'm glad you found it interesting, It definitely looks like an intimidating machine until you know what's going on with it. Cheers!
Helpful video, thank you!
This was incredibly helpful - could you please do videos showing examples of pathology on slit lamp?
This was extremely helpful!, Thankyouu soo much
So satisfying!
Great review of the slit lamp. Thank you.
of course!
Like video and yes would like to learn more about the different type of illumination and see how you do it.
Thanks
This is an awesome video, it was extremely helpful - would love for you to do a video showing the exam itself and what we're looking for. Hope you are well!
I'm glad it helped. I'm looking to put one together. Cheers
@@doctoreyeballmd7493 Thanks! Smiles.
Thank you.., it was so helpful
Thank you so much for your video it helped me pass my NCLE exams for becoming a licensed optician. Without your video I wouldn’t have been able to pass. Thank you so much!
That’s awesome! And congrats on passing! ❤️
Amazing video 👍
great video! would also like to see the illuminations described and shown (pre contact lens fit exam), would love to share for teaching in Opticianry school .
Thank you for this video!, can you make a video only on how to take the pressure using Goldmann applanation and using the tono-pen. I would really appreciate it, there aren't good videos on youtube...
Great tutorial
Would like more on doing Goldman tonometry
And 8 point exam
Very informative. Thank you !
Of course 🙏🏼
Thank you! It was very helpful :) Please make more videos :)
glad it helped. will do
This was great- Thank you!
Of course
Helpful as a PA student too!
Hi, could you please recommend a full ref book of how to work with slit lamp and what can be found and etc?
Extremely helpful to me. Thanks alot for this accurate explanation and y made it really easy. Thanks again😌
I’m glad it helped!
@@doctoreyeballmd7493 Really did sir . I'm watching it again 😌
Hii dear. I really need your help.
Dear is it possible to detect epi contoura surgery by slit lamp test or by any other medical test?
Thanks that’s a brilliant review! Many thanks Allan Harris GP
Sure thing!
yes sir try to make the detail video of slit lamp examinations
hi great video! just to check did you get round to doing the follow up 8 step slit lamp exam for this?
i have been meaning to still but have had trouble finding a slit lamp with a video camera mounted on so I can show the parts of the eye. i do still plan to though at some point
This video is so helpful thanks boss
of course!
Do you know if it's safe to use ophthalmoscope while using the Slit Lamp? Any
Can you show me please how to measurements the soft toric contact lenses rotation ? Thank you
thank you super helpful!
Yes of course!
Thank you so much!!!!!!
Of course
Very useful. Tnx
Of course!
Thanks this video was very helpful. I am a nurse practitioner about to start working in an urgent care. The urgent care has a slit lamp! I wonder if you have any videos on how to use a tono-pen?
Best of luck to you! And that’s a good idea for a video. I’ve definitely been called into the emergency room at 3 AM because someone didn’t know how to use a tonopen lol
best video
This is an excellent tutorial! Question: if you have a pt with a very peripheral small retinal tear - one they only notice when looking up, for example - how do you suggest visualizing it?
I’m not sure I understand the question. A small tear is not typically noticeable to pts unless they’re having flashes/floaters from it. If there’s a small detachment that’s a bit more concerning. Let me know if that doesn’t clarify and I’ll try again.
@@doctoreyeballmd7493 Excuse me; poor choice of words. This is a situation where a pt was having a small but growing visual disturbance on the periphery of their vision, far enough in the periphery that it's in their (subjective) upper field of vision _when looking up_ but they don't notice it otherwise. The slow growth of it has been for over a year, and we haven't been able to visualize it yet. We've been trying to get creative and see if we can figure out a position with the slit lamp that essentially simulates that transient moment when they're looking up and it 'shimmers', by pt description. As it hasn't been visualized, there's not solid data on whether it's a small detachment, or small tear they can notice due to Sx.
Thank you
In medical school and interested in ophthalmology. Due to this career being procedure heavy, how might I know if my hands are steady enough for microsurgery? Also, what might you suggest to practice on to steadying hands for this profession?
Thanks for your help!
Unless you have a severe tremor, I wouldn’t let the idea that your hands aren’t steady enough deter you from pursuing ophthalmology. Almost everyone who matches can learn the surgeries. It’s not that you need superhuman dexterity or steadiness. Best of luck.
@@doctoreyeballmd7493 Thank you for that response.
Also, one sensitive question about compensation. Has competitiveness of the speciality gone down with the decrease in compensation? thx
Hello, can the light used in eye exam (split lamp) damage retina or eyes?
Thanks
No
how would you change the magnification? is there a magnification changer piece on every slit lamp?
There is normally a knob or a little switch that switches the magnification it’s up by the oculars
When I try to look through the ocular all I see is black no matter how many adjustments I make. Any suggestions? Great video. Thanks!
Hard to say why that is - something might be wrong with that slit lamp. Make sure the toggle between magnifications isn't stuck in an in between position.
Family med resident here and this was very helpful!
glad it helped! cheers :)
useful =)
Thanks sir.
of course!
Which subspecialty are you thinking about doing a Fellowship in? If you're considering doing a Fellowship that is...
I will have a video covering this topic soon ;)
I am living in south america, I had an appoiment with an ophthalmologist, he dilated my pupils and made me fundus, I went only for a simple consultation because I am 40 now and my wife advised me for a complete vision study, 4 days after the consultation I still saw blurry, So I went to visit another ophthalmologist to ask him what was wrong in the consultation he puts into my eyes an orange drops to tint them and he examined me with the slit lamp. He also told me that everithing was right but my condition worsened because by the afternoon I saw more blurred, it is difficult for me to see and even more when I look away and before the consultation I was fine, now it is 20 days since I have been like this, maybe you think that there was mismanagement of the slit lamps with maximum lights.
I am very distressed I hope you can answer me.
Blessings
Did you post the SL video?
not yet. i need a slit lamp mounted video camera then i will though
Thanks. Background Music is distracting. Great information
Please do a video on eye examination in slit lamp
I definitely will. Thanks!
Hey man, did you ever do the 8-point video?
I haven’t yet, still waiting on our slit lamp camera to get fixed
@@doctoreyeballmd7493 no problem man! This video was still super helpful in preparing me for aways
i just graduated from high school i don't know why i watched this i wont need to know this for like 8 years
haha never too early to learn I suppose
Can a slit lamp be too bright and cause damage?
Are you still looking to a video on the basics of the eye exam?
yes I do plan to make that video when I get access to a slit lamp with a camera mounted to it
Thanks for this ! Ain’t nobody teaching shit here in my Residency
Haha sure thing
Thank you for this. It is helpful. My only request would be to lose the background music.
Can you talk about your internship year?
Asia Green adding on to that: what do you think of all programs having integrated internships this year?
I’ll try to address those topics in a future video. Good idea!
Does the background music stop, if so at what point in the video? It is too distracting/irritating for me to watch what may be a useful tutorial
yes me too .. cut the music please on other videos
Perfect
But music is distracting
thanks! i got that feedback alot in the earlier videos, so I’ve tried to reduce the background music volume
Someone left your radio on in the office
Thank you🌼
It will be better without song😶
Great but skip the music next time!
The background music is too distracting and takes attention away from what the speaker is saying.
the music is annoying , I cant focus
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wow ! really just wearing an item makes you gay , lol
@@derekmorgan9250 yes! Just like a male in a dress is faggotry. Ask Rupaul, and Bruce Jenner! Btw, you can not become a woman unless you have a matrix and mammary glands. Kaitlin Jenner is a flop! 😂