Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and Honey Rose case on hospital attendances of patients suspected to have papilloedema

Journal article

Papilloedema can be the first sign of life-threatening disease. Its importance was highlighted in 2016 when optometrist, Honey Rose, was convicted of gross negligence manslaughter for not identifying papilloedema in a child who later died [ 1 ]. As the detection of papilloedema relies entirely on fundal examination and/or imaging that were relatively contraindicated among non-eyecare clinicians during the COVID-19 pandemic, we were concerned about the impact of the pandemic on hospital attendances of patients with papilloedema.

Authors: McNicholl, C; Gill, A; Harrison, R; Atan, D

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Springer Nature [academic journals on nature.com]
• Journal: Eye
• Volume: 37
• Issue: 10
• Pages: 2157-2159
• Publication date: 2022-11-28
• DOI: 10.1038/s41433-022-02310-0
• EISSN: 1476-5454
• ISSN: 0950-222X
• Language: English
• Keywords: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19); Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2); Internal medicine; Rose (mathematics); Neuro-ophthalmology; Virology; Medicine; Glaucoma; Emergency medicine; Ophthalmology; Pandemic; Pediatrics; Outbreak; 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak; Optometry