Preparing for Your Telehealth Appointment With Shields & Shields

Preparing for Your Telehealth Appointment

Please follow the steps below. This will begin the process, but will not schedule your appointment date & time.

Step 1

Take photographs of the affected eye before your appointment:

Using a cell phone camera with the flash turned ON, hold phone 4-8 inches away from the patient. To ensure focus, tap the screen until the picture is clear.
Do not zoom. Make sure patient holds both top and bottom eyelids open.

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Take photographs of the following gazes for the affected eye(s):

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Email photographs of the affected eye to [email protected]

Step 2

Do you currently have any...

Discharge?

Discomfort/Pain?

Redness?

Swelling?

Blurry/Double Vision?

Send your answers to [email protected]

Step 3

 

Please take the following vision tests
Send your results to [email protected]
You can simply circle the lines you can read, take a picture & send it.

Visual Acuity Screening

When printed, print Actual Size without margins.

If displayed on a screen, adjust scale so the circle is 1 inch in diameter, approximately the size of a US Quarter Dollar Coin.

Banner Eye Care Visual Acuity Test 1.4 – Mount on Wall 5 feet from Patient, away from Window or Light Source.
This Page is ANSI Letter sized (8.5”x11”).

Test distance 5 feet.

Further screening is available with near vision screening and

Near Vision & Amsler Grid Screening

Design by University of Arizona Ophthalmology and Vision Science, for COVID-19 Pandemic Monitoring, April 3 2020

Telehealth App

Your video consultation will take place using the Patient Portal.
This can be done via the website https://shields.ema.md or the PocketPatient app:

Telehealth Patient Instructions