The Role of Home Tonometry in Pandemic Prevention

There is definitely place for home phasing and is something that is important to determine if they are spiking at other times of the day because we do know pressure naturally goes up overnight as well. I don't think many people are phasing anymore and sort of admitting people into hospital for the day during a pandemic because sitting around in the clinic isn't really what people wanted to do during a Pandemic. Some individuals actually purchasing their own home care IOP monitor and monitoring it regularly themselves so there's a concern about the anxiety that might be induced with that similar to a patient who might have their own blood pressure monitor at home and is regularly monitoring it. We just have to be wary