April Jasper, OD, on Integrating Dry Eye Technology with Reichert OS1000 & Idra at Vision Expo East

Live from Vision Expo East in New York City, April Jasper, OD, shares her firsthand experience with integrating the Reichert Dry Eye Suite of evaluation and therapy devices into her practice. Whether the OS1000 Topographer with Dry Eye Evaluation, or the stand-alone Idra Dry Eye Workstation, both give an objective, fast, and incredibly comprehensive dry eye assessment all in just 2 minutes (for OS1000) and 30 seconds (for Idra).

The customizable test wizard guides you through all the necessary tests:
• Lipid Layer analysis
• Auto-Non-invasive breakup time
• Meibography
• Tear Meniscus
• Eye Blink detection and quality analysis
• 3D Meibography
• Blepharitis
• Bulbar Redness
• Efron/CCLRU/Jenvis
• Demodex
• Pupillometry

Ocular surface assessment technology can help practices increase operational efficiency, identify more dry eye disease (DED), and improve patient care.

• Dry Eye Disease (DED) is becoming more prevalent in the United States with an estimated 16 million Americans having been diagnosed with DED(1), but some reports indicate nearly half of all U.S. adults experience dry eye signs and symptoms(2).

• 33% of patients in eye care clinics present complaints of dry eye symptoms(1), impacting the quality of their day-to-day lives.

• Traditional methods of assessing DED can be time consuming, difficult to administer, uncomfortable for patients, and often provide subjective results which can lead to misdiagnosis.



References: (1) Farrand KF, Fridman M, Stillman IO, Schaumberg DA. Prevalence of Diagnosed Dry Eye Disease in the United States Among Adults Aged 18 Years and Older. Am J Ophthalmol 2017;182:90-8. (2) Adler R. Dry eye syndrome: Symptoms and causes. All About Vision, 2017.