Nursing Department, Siriraj Hospital, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10700, Thailand
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of different number of doses of dilating eye drops administered to patients diagnosed with uncomplicated retinal detachment. Patients selected for this study had normal iris; they no history of underlying diabetes mellitus, hypertension, or heart disease, and were admitted to ophthalmology wards. The collected data consisted of their pupillary sizes measurements after administering one dose, two doses and three doses of dilating eye drops. The standard for measuring the pupillary size was based on the Nurse Observation Form used at Siriraj Hospital. The data were analyzed using Friedman test and Wilcoxon Signed ranks test. There were 30 patients recruited in this study. Eighty percent of the study group were male between 21-89 years old with the mean age of 50.4 years old. The study was to compare the effectiveness of different doses of dilatation eye drops which showed that after 60 minutes of two-dose regimen the pupils were equally dilated as that treated with three doses of the dilating eye drop for 30 minutes.
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