This video describes how to perform the Red Reflex Test (also increasingly known as the Fundal Reflex Test) using the Arclight low-cost ophthalmoscope. The Red (Fundal) Reflex Test can help identify congenital cataract and retinoblastoma in babies and young children. It should be performed on every newborn and again at six weeks of age. When infants attend immunisation clinics and neuro-developmental assessments it can be repeated to help prevent blindness and even death.
In this video you will learn:
- How to perform the Red Reflex Test, using a step-by-step approach
- How to use the Arclight low-cost ophthalmoscope to perform the Red Reflex Test
- The appearance of a normal Red Reflex in babies of different ethnicities
- The appearance of an abnormal Red Reflex
- The important eye conditions that cause an abnormal Red Reflex
Video Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:24 General Inspection
0:57 Eliciting the Red Reflex
1:36 Normal Red Reflex
2:08 Abnormal Red Reflex
2:24 Summary of Normal and Abnormal Findings
2:51 Causes of an Abnormal Red Reflex
3:08 After Examination
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