Our experience with Retinophaty of prematurity screening in Curacao

At the beginning of 1996, we started with a structural periodical screening of babies that were prematurely born. This was done utilizing a protocol that was developed in cooperation with both the author and the Neonatology Department of our hospital in Curacao. After more than 200 screenings only one case of retinopathy of prematurity, stage 3, was detected. (AU)

New protocol of early preventative screening of children in coorporation with the island health services [abstract]

The protocol "Early Preventive Visual Screening of Children" has been developed in mutual Cooperation with both the Islands Ophthalmologic Society and the Department of Youth Preventitive Medicine of the Island Health Service. The aim is to periodically screen for function of the visual system in children starting at a very young age and going up to age 15 years. This means that at an early stage, dysfunctional problems can be detected and appropriately dealth with. This protocol has two parts. The first one is about the visual examination and the second part has to do with the visual acuity measurement in children. (AU)