Thursday, June 23, 2011

Brit OD Saves Woman's Sight

"When Patricia Thompson visited Michael James Opticians...she had been suffering from a tingling sensation down the side of her face and that her left eye ‘felt like it was bulging’. Her vision was also affected," according to a post on GooleCourier. "Garrey Haase - a professional optometrist ... - used advanced Ocular Coherence Tomography (OCT) screening equipment to take a series of 3D images of Patricia’s eyes. He explained: 'The images of the back of Patricia’s eyes were very clear and I was able to confirm that there was a swelling of the optic nerve. I telephoned the eye department at Hull Royal Infirmary and arranged for Patricia to go there straight away with copies of the images that we’d taken.'” Read more.

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