Interview Overview: Founding members of Young OD’s of America (YODA) sharing their thoughts, experience and knowledge on COVID19 and Safe #Tonometry Solution by Diaton #Tonometer. https://www.TonometerDiaton.com
IN THE VIDEO: Will To, OD at Optical Illusions San Mateo, CA https://opti-illusions.com/ aka @thetravelingOD
Justin Bazan, OD Park Slope Eye, Brooklyn, NY https://parkslopeeye.com/ https://www.youtube.com/user/parkslopeeye
Kirk Kaupke, OD in New York City (NYC)
John Nguyen, OD with practices in Bronx, Brooklyn and Staten Island https://www.insighteyeassociatesny.com/
Roman Iospa, CEO of Diaton Tonometer at DevelopAll Inc, New York https://tonometerdiaton.com/company/
TOPICS: Infection Prevention in Optometry Practice Cleaning and disinfecting tonometry devices How can optometrists provide safest care to their patients with tools available on the market Measuring IOP with scleral lenses on. Saving cost on tips and drops.
Watch Interview:
Interview: Young OD’s of America on COVID19 and Safe Tonometry Solution with CEO of Diaton Tonometer
Transcription:
Hello my name is Roman Iospa, I’m CEO of the Diaton Tonometer, we’re here at SECO International in Atlanta with top members of Young OD’s of America.
Honored to be here. We actually met earlier we discussed various topics from SECO being here in Atlanta to attendance to also tonometry device that we have which actually enables also to measure independent of the potentially spread of the infection diseases and so on unfortunately as I was traveling to Atlanta New York Airport had not many people flying out and that’s the concern one of the reasons we’re gathered here today is to see how optometry is being affected by the corona virus and how some of the technologies and/or practices can enhance and make patients feel a little safer and as well as practices and people that work there so I would like to introduce Will To to take it from here.
So hi my name is Will To, I practice in San Mateo California one of the partners of young
OD’s of America and you know I agree with what you’re saying in terms of you
know what’s happening with this corona virus I mean it’s it’s almost
unfortunate that it takes something like this for people to be more aware of how
quickly infectious diseases can spread you know it’s not like a month ago
diseases were okay now this month we have a problem it’s always been a
problem and while there’s always been regulations I think sometimes people can
become a bit lacks in terms of what’s needed to be done in order to prevent
diseases from spreading at a wide scale so you know having I
think opportunities and working with different companies having access to
different equipment where we can do everything we can to protect our
patients is definitely a very important thing. Justin would you mind introducing
yourself for everyone.
Thank you hi my name is Justin Bazan I am from Park
Slope Eye which is in Brooklyn New York a founding member of Young OD’s of
America we’re fortunate enough to be positioned across from each other here
and I was actually learning quite a bit about the importance of how we can help
minimize the spread of infection and utilize safety protocols and take
precautions in our office and also utilize devices that are easily
maintained in a hygienic way without having to throw it in an autoclave and I
appreciate learning more about the Diaton Tonometer because it is one of
those devices that would help simplify that and also make sure it maximizes the
safety that we want to maintain in our offices. One of the other things that I
also learned is somebody who practices with scleral lenses the impact of a scleral lens on intraocular pressure and especially in our glaucoma patients
who are also scleral lens wearers you know what effect are we having on that
pressure and quite honestly the method of measuring IOP that I use just doesn’t
work with the scleral lens. I’m not gonna be able to do it so learning more about how
the Diaton can help me with my scleral patients who have glaucoma or just
learning more about the changes of the pressures that it causes was I was
eye-opening to me. Thank you so much appreciate you sharing your experience
and commenting on sclera lenses. It’s it’s another important topic and
another risk factor which should be paying attention to, unfortunately now it’s kind of got
overshadowed by coronavirus and how we should not as you know practitioners as
well as us kind of mentioning all the time that we minimize the infection
because we’re measuring through the eyelid without touching the mucous membrane with the device now with
everybody all of a sudden pays a little bit more attention to it and I
appreciate you noting that and you know anything you would like you’d
be able to add please.
My name is Kurt Kaupke I practice in New York I own two practices I also work in a cornea and contact lens practice so I improved
familiar with that process we see a lot of patients on a day-to-day basis and we
have to make sure that we are not only keeping ourselves safe but keeping
future patients safe that are going to be in that chair and so that includes
taking care of all the equipment in our
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office because a patient’s does that
patient has no idea who was in that
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chair before them and so it is something
that we want to be mindful of and make
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sure that we’re keeping everyone safe.
Well, I know you also had experience with
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the Diaton, we had you tested also I
know you’ll have an implementation of at
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least a device or some in some of your
practices. What made you think or what
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does the Diaton solve for you if you
were don’t mind just just whatever you
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you know came to mind I’d appreciate
your comments so
I’m John Nguyen, I practice in Bronx and Brooklyn I was introduced
to the Diaton today and it was actually
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very easy device to use. The one thing
that came to my mind was that I use a
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check my pressure with Goldmann, but if
I don’t have to use proparacaine and
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tetracaine as often with the rising
cost of proparacaine tetracaine up to
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30 to 60 dollars on a business side of
things you’re looking to Save a LOT of
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Money in the long term by using a Diaton and that’s what I learned today now I
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will try to take a look at it and implement in my office and see how it goes
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That’s that’s great.
Gentlemen unfortunately in today’s day
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and age we need to be mindful of any
place that we go let it be the movie
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theater let it be me taking my daughter
to the park and I am concerned but other
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patients are also concerned just beside
stepping out they but they need medical
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care they need eye care
hopefully the you know our technology
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will help you to deliver that care and
you know Will, I know we had a you know a
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discussion on that
hopefully you know this this will help
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you do what you do best with the
patients and create that confidence
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level because we really we need that and
you guys are young young OD’s of
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America to deliver and you know
emphasize that message and appreciate
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you commenting on that. Anybody would like
to add anything please Will, I know you
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always have something great to say
please . I don’t know about that but I
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will you know I do I do want to just
touch a little bit more on top of what
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you were just saying and honestly you
know as we see the in the news what’s
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happening with the Corona virus you know
there’s the the logical side of our
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brains are you understand that you know
this isn’t as bad as some of the things
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that we have going on you know it’s
really no need to have this widespread
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panic but then you know the emotional
side you know sometimes gets in that in
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the way and you know what we want to do
is always make sure you know that we in
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terms of our patients and their
interactions that we we help them out in
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both aspects and that we address both
aspects of it that yes we’re here to
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take care of you we are do do have a
sterile environment in our practices we
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clean up clean in between every every
patient but also at the same time you
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know you know we have we are we are
always doing everything we can to make
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sure that we have access to things that
will keep you safe you know you
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shouldn’t be scared to go to the doctor
to get sick it’s very important that
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during these times if you’re worried or
you have symptoms and you believe you
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have it that you do go to the proper
clinician who will take care of you so
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the proper clinician is also the one
that has the equipment that will keep
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you safe and not potentially caused more
harm that would be the opposite of what
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we want to do. So like once again I just
want to just keep addressing the fact
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that you know it’s just having it at
having the Diaton as a device that
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allows you to to supplement what you
have it doesn’t replace what you
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currently have it supplements and gives
you another option for certain patients
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that need to have that need to have
their pressure measured in a certain way
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or just are uncomfortable with some of
the current methods we have with or
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without a virus outbreak that we that we
are currently having so I always
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appreciate having more options you know
give putting more tools in my toolbox is
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always a good thing as a clinician.
Fantastic fantastic
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Justin anyone anyone anyone well guys I
appreciate you sharing your feedback
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it’s not just the feedback it’s it’s the
way we think today it’s the way we
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practice today we always have patient
care in mind we as a company we try to
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innovate we’re also you know we thought
we’re not just a device company we’re
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part of the community we’re part of the
society and we want to kind of give back
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and get this message across to many that
we as an industry trying to help to
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prevent the spread of these you know
diseases out there and hopefully it
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passes on and we don’t need to kind of
use these technologies out but I want to
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thank the Young OD’s of America you
gentlemen are great I always keep an eye
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on you and looking forward to following
you as well so thank you for your time
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for being here. Thank you. Thank you.
Take away message: Infection and virus spread prevention is on the Top of everyone’s mind. Eye care industry is preparing for safest ways to continue to provide eye care to their patients. One of the solutions on the market is the Transpalpebral Diaton Tonometer which allows eye care practitioners to safely measure intraocular pressure (IOP) for glaucoma diagnosis and monitoring. Diaton Tonometer enables eye care professionals to measure and monitor IOP through the upper eyelid without touching the mucous membrane or the cornea, with that eliminating the risk of infecting. THROUGH THE EYELID tonometer is being viewed as THE SAFEST solution in preventing Risk of Infection during IOP measuring – in wake of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. How can transpalpebral tonometer protect patients and practitioners from COVID-19? Please review the video and details here:
Since there is Zero contact with the eye’s mucous membrane – transpalpebral technology has an embedded feature of minimizing Risk of Infection. Diaton is safer than NCT, as a new study suggests suspending the use of NCT given the potential source of micro-aerosol formation. WHO alerted that COVID-19 can aerosolize and live in the air for hours. Affected patients frequently present to eye clinics or emergency departments which may have COVID-19 in tears and conjunctival secretions. That increases the likelihood ophthalmologists may be the first providers to evaluate patients possibly infected with COVID-19. Diaton tonometer is easing concern of possible COVID-19 spread by: 1. Preventing virus spread by not touching a potential COVID-19 infected eye 2. Protecting physician, staff and patient 3. Reassuring the patient that the eye care practice is doing everything possible to protect by using technologies not touching the eye.
#SafeTonometer Video of safe way to to tonometry with Diaton tonometer:
Join our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWzipjFv8ToVW7gXUrUBgyA Diaton is getting a lot of attention as we’re dealing with the US Government and Military. We’re now in talks with other institutions and hospitals that are looking to implement Diaton in telemedicine in their day to day routine, to help prevent risk of COVID-19 exposure to the practitioner and patient. Diaton’s infection prevention is considered invaluable by patients and practitioners, in addition to all appreciated clinical advantages. No need for disposable tonometer tips and anesthetic bottles is appreciated for cost reduction and further reduced chance of infection spread. Get in touch with Team Diaton – we’re here to assist: 877-34-8667 email [email protected] Let’s Connect! Read our latest news posts: http://www.linkedin.com/company/tonometer https://www.facebook.com/Tonometer http://www.pinterest.com/Tonometer/ https://twitter.com/TONOMETER
