DFV's Iggy Koukouras with the ICare Home

Taking pride of place on Designs for Vision’s busy stand was Icare Home, a home tonometer for glaucoma suspects and post-surgical monitoring, which has now been combined with new Icare mHome software, which automatically charts a patient’s intraocular pressure (IOP) variations day and night.

The clinician provides Icare Home to their patient for a few days, so they can measure their IOP multiple times a day, explained Iggy Koukouras. The Icare mHome then collects and interprets this IOP data, displaying it via an intuitive user interface. “It enables the clinician to determine whether or not their patient’s pressures are fluctuating when they are not in the clinic. The patient can’t read the pressure, the data is only available to the clinician via secure login. They can then use the software to determine patterns and assess whether or not, for example, their drops are working.”

Among its many dry eye offerings, including the popular Oculus Keratograph 5M, was the new Tomey MR 6000. This multifunction refractometer, offers topography, refraction, keratometry, tonometry, pachymetry and dry eye analysis. By combining all these functions in a single unit, there is no need to move a patient for each examination, times are reduced and space saved, said Koukouras. “It’s fabulous; takes up hardly any space. It’s an all-in-one screening device.”