As part of World Glaucoma Day, the Ophthalmology Service team at Parc Taulí has carried out 288 eye tests to detect glaucoma early and help make this silent disease visible. During the tests, 34 people were referred to the Ophthalmology Service.
The Ophthalmology Service team in charge of these tests was an ophthalmologist, two optometrists, a TCAI, an Ophthalmology resident and a medical student.
Both glaucoma and ocular hypertension do not cause any visual symptoms until the disease is very advanced. Glaucoma is an irreversible optic neuropathy that can be controlled with treatment: drops, laser or surgery. But if left untreated and not detected quickly, it can cause irreversible blindness. Parc Taulí makes between 80 and 90 weekly visits to patients with glaucoma to monitor the disease.
With this initiative, the professionals at Parc Taulí wanted to make the population aware of the importance of regular ophthalmological examinations in order to be able to make an early detection and prevent the disease, since vision lost due to glaucoma cannot be recovered.
