Dr. Shana Sood

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Dr. Shana Sood is a cornea and refractive senior fellow at Dr. Agarwals eye hospital. She has completed her MBBS with a gold medal & DNB with the Jaiveer Agarwal gold medal, FICO (Adv) and MRCS (Edin). She did her Advanced cataract fellowship from Sankara Nethralaya and has spoken and presented in various conferences.

  1. Blog 18 May 2020 5 min read

    APPs in India: Smartphone Apps in ophthalmology

    Smartphone Applications (Apps) have entered all the spheres of our life- whether its music, food or plain old messaging. Information is now easily accessible from the palm of your hand and ophthalmology has been one of the first few medical branches to embrace this. Here are a few apps designed by Indian ophthalmologists and engineers that are changing the way we look at smartphones. Apps for Your Clinics Toric IOL Axis Marker Developed by: Dr. Girish Jethwa and Dr. Mukesh Dholakia Requirement for installation: Smartphone with the operating system Android 5.0 and up Free Click the Link In this App, the axis of a reference blood vessel is measured after capturing an image of the patient’s eye in sitting position. This image is then again utilized during the surgery, to help in the correct orientation of the Toric IOL Marker and to mark the IOL axis in reference to- this blood vessel. This avoids misalignment of Toric IOL due to cyclotorsion of the globe in lying down position. iToric Pa

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