iCare's Yuka Ishida with the newly updated Compass perimeter on DFV's stand at RANZCO

The new iCare Compass automated perimeter with active retinal tracking, now with new features, is designed to optimise clinic efficiency and clinical care, while ensuring accuracy, said iCare's Yuka Ishida.

Dominating the centre of Designs For Vision’s stand at RANZCO, the Compass combines visual field tests, fixation loss correction and confocal TrueColor fundus imaging. With its auto-aligning, non-mydriatic operation, it is patient-friendly, easy to use and now even quicker, said Ishida.

According to the company, it also has a touch screen and is operated without trial lenses, saving time and making it easy to disinfect, while its retinal tracker ensures reliable, artefact-free tests, offering increased clinical value, accuracy and patient comfort. “iCare Compass is the first automated perimeter that can perform standard visual field tests using a real-time retinal tracker while delivering ultra-high resolution confocal TrueColor fundus images.”

The advantages the Compass has over standard automated perimetry includes the ability to measure sensitivity at specific retinal locations with high topographic accuracy, said iCare. “Standard automated perimeters cannot actively compensate for eye movements during the test. They either ignore eye movements, which could lead to motion artefacts, or they experience data loss when patients blink. The tracker ensures that the next stimulus meant for the same location really is in the same anatomical location, despite eye movements.”

In patients with unstable fixation, the retinal tracker offers unparalleled advantages, said Ishida, since it does not have to rely on the objectivity of the operator, “offering superior visual field test repeatability for effective and reliable long-term monitoring of retinal defects.”