What is it about?
Ophthalmology nurses successfully undertaking injections of antiVEGF medicines directly into patients' eyes for various serious retinal diseases
Featured Image
Why is it important?
New medicines -known as antiVEGF agents -most notably Lucentis and Eylea- need to be given frequently and by intraocular injection if the patient has certain retinal conditions. Previously these injections were only provided by Ophthalmic Surgeons. It is a great improvement to healthcare by such injections being given by nurses. More patients can be treated in a timely fashion. This matters as these retinal disorders are time sensitive blinding disorders
Perspectives
We are pleased that our local teams in Bolton and Blackburn were one of the early adopters of this innovation and that many others hospitals were encouraged by this publication and which was one of the first such papers on this novel topic
Mr Simon P Kelly
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust
Read the Original
This page is a summary of: Transformational change: nurses substituting for ophthalmologists for intravitreal injections – a quality-improvement report, Clinical Ophthalmology, April 2014, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.2147/opth.s59982.
You can read the full text:
Contributors
The following have contributed to this page
