Magnetic Stick Prism Set
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New Product News from Gulden Ophthalmics
Gulden’s New Patent-Pending Magnetically Attachable Handles Make Ophthalmic & Other Medical Devices Easier
and Less Cumbersome to Use.
Initial uses, described here, include prism sets.
ELKINS PARK, PA — Gulden Ophthalmics has invented, introduced, and filed patents for magnetically attachable handles for ophthalmic and other medical devices. The handles permit much easier and less cumbersome counter-top storage, transport, and use than devices with permanently attached handles. Initially, the handles are available for Gulden’s prism sets used during vision exams with patients.
Handles on prisms provide better control and less rotation, making them much faster, more precise, cleaner (less fingerprints on the prism) with less fumbling in use when examining patients than prisms without handles. However, having permanently attached handles built onto devices – as with stick prism sets, for example – makes them unwieldy to store and transport.
Prism sets are usually located in a convenient place in the exam room; their more compact nature with the detachable handles means they occupy far less exam counter space and can more easily be moved from exam room to exam room. Since devices like prisms are often used when eye care professionals examine patients off site such as at nursing homes, rehabilitation centers, hospitals, and clinics the magnetically attachable handles make prism sets easier to transport and more apt to be including with the eye care professional’s “kit.”
The magnetically attachable handles are fast and simple to attach and detach. Strong rare-earth magnets hold the devices firmly on the handles, yet are easy to remove. Professionals can easily and rapidly attach and detach a series of prisms when working with patients to determine the best prism correction.
As fabricated for use, magnets are embedded in the ophthalmic device and in the handle. Handles can be constructed of plastic, wood, metal, glass, or other materials and can take the shape of a shaft, stem, grip, holder, etc. As designed, the newly introduced handles are strong, secure, and ergonomically comfortable to grasp and hold.
The patent in process will cover magnetically attachable handles for any device. In the future, handles can be developed for magnifiers, occluders, flippers, fixation sticks, brushes, or any other similar medical device where a handle is beneficial, yet cumbersome when permanently attached.
For more information about this product and its multiple uses, visit Gulden’s website or contact Gulden Ophthalmics:
225 Cadwalader Avenue Elkins Park, PA 19027-2020
Tel 215-884-8105 Fax 215-884-0418
www.guldenophthalmics.com email: info@guldenophthalmics.com
BACKGROUND NOTE: Diagnostic prisms are used during an eye exam to measure the prism correction needed to obtain normal vision for a patient whose eyes are not perfectly aligned in what they see, as in strabismus. When the eyes are not aligned, the right and left eyes see different images resulting in blurred or double vision. Eyeglasses with corrective prisms can often be used to align the images seen by both eyes, so the eyes can fuse or see the same image, restoring visual clarity and depth perception.