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CET feedback: Digital eyestrain interactive

Bill Harvey discusses your responses to our recent interactive CET exercise concerning the management of a patient with symptoms affecting her use of digital displays (C59410)

There were yet higher numbers of respondents than any previous interactive exercise we have published for this. I hope this reflects both a topic of great interest to all, and also that this format of CET is bedding in.

You were asked about the following case:

Key points

Case study

The patient is female, date of birth 7/8/84, and appeared to show signs of incipient presbyopia (problems focusing text for any length of time especially when using a tablet or smartphone in the evening – ‘for eBay’) along with digital eye strain (the same accompanied by grittiness and blurring on blink exclusive to screen viewing).

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