Talk:Red reflex

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment
This article is or was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Carlihaasbroek. Peer reviewers: Doc4Man.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 07:55, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

Vitreous
Vitreous - literally means glass-like. Primary happens in the embryo - forms between the optic cup and lense vessicle; Secondary is avascular vitreous secondary to primary vitreous. Please look up my edits before deleting them. If my edits are not in proper WP format, then help me learn how to do it. I reccommend you buy Stedman's Medical Dictionary if you are going to edit medical articles - or download with this Bit Torrent generation - but I recommend buying it, since that would be legal. 24.205.92.132 02:51, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
 * also could you please tell me how you monitor this page so closely? do you have a special way of viewing recent changes so that you only see medical articles? Do you get email alerts? How does it work? 24.205.92.132 02:54, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Add References when you get a chance
Someone could add these references when you get a chance: Bates Guide to Physical Exam, Harrison's, Cecil's, e-medicine.com, medline.com,

I don't believe this entry should be removed for format reasons since it is the talk page. If you want to change the title's I listed, feel free to look them up on amazon or at your online library catalog. 24.205.92.132 03:15, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Propose merge
How about merging this article into Leukocoria? --Una Smith (talk) 16:02, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Work Plan December 2017
Hi my Wiki community,

I wanted to briefly introduce myself and let anyone who is following this page understand my goals for the upcoming month. I am fourth year medical student at UCSF applying into Emergency Medicine. I have an interest in determining high yield tests including physical exam findings which is why I wanted to update the red reflex page. Even though the actual exam itself is fairly simple, as many physicians know, an abnormal exam needs immediate evaluation (of course depending on the pathology). I’d like to make it a page that medical students can turn to begin to understand how to execute and evaluate the results. Simultaneously, I hope it can help non-medically trained individuals begin to understand what medical professionals are doing when we shine a light in their child’s eye and what to do if they note an abnormal reflex on their family photos. It will be my first attempt at editing a Wikipage and I am very open to feedback and input from my more senior editors. Sincerely, Carli Haasbroek

Current status: Mid importance, stub. Has one reference about executing the red reflex exam.

Anticipated Structure: •	Introduction – brief mechanism, describe abnormal finding, and most common pathology. •	“How to do a Red Reflex” for Dummies – in detail description of how to and anticipated difficulties. themselves, and anticipated next exam
 * •	Infants/Neonates abnormal exam
 * •	Children abnormal exam
 * •	Adults and the beyond abnormal exam
 * •	What does this actually mean?
 * o	realities of the likelihood of abnormal exam being pathology, how parents can detect

1.	Goals:
 * a.	Create an informative Wikipedia page:
 * i.	describes how to execute a red reflex
 * ii.	what abnormal results are
 * iii.	break down by age group the pathology that it is used to screen
 * iv.	Briefly describe the next steps taken for abnormal results.
 * b.	Make it useful for both learning medical students and non-medical individuals

2.	Outline (general plan)
 * a. Create an outline by December 1st
 * b.	First draft by December 8th
 * c.	Final draft by 13th for peer review

3.	Anticipated articles used: a.	 “Red Reflex Examination in Infants.” Pediatrics, vol. 109, no. 5, Jan. 2002, pp. 980–981., doi:10.1542/peds.109.5.980.

b.	Bell A.L., Rodes M.E., Kellar L.C. Childhood Eye Examination. Am Fam Physician. 2013;88(4):241–248. [PubMed]

c.	 American Academy of Pediatrics; Section on Ophthalmology; American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus; American Academy of Ophthalmology; American Association of Certified Orthoptists. Red reflex examination in neonates, infants, and children. Pediatrics. 2008;122:14014. [PubMed]

d.	https://www-ncbi-nlm-nih-gov.ucsf.idm.oclc.org/pubmed/26175034

e.	Sensitivity and Specificity of Red Reflex Test in Newborn Eye Screening Sun, Ming et al. The Journal of Pediatrics, Volume 179 , 192 - 196.e4

f.	Still looking for adult red reflex resource  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Carlihaasbroek (talk • contribs) 17:56, 27 November 2017 (UTC)


 * Hey Carli, great edits thus far! Here are some comments for the peer review:
 * In the lead section, you use a lot of technical terms (fundus, optical media, etc) that while linked to, still make for a difficult sounding intro - maybe define the word the first time you use it in the lead, i.e. "reflection of light from the back of the eye, or fundus, which is observed"...etc. I feel like the lead should be a simple as possible to read through while those technical terms may come later
 * "This is a recommended screening" sentence feels awfully long - maybe break it up into two or three?
 * Overall love the content and structure of the lead! Really great intro to the article covering the quick and important info, and great improvement from prior.
 * Maybe add a graphic, diagram, or figure to the technique section which shows how it's done, if you can find one? And/or a picture somewhere showing a normal red eye and a pathologic white one?
 * Not sure I understand this limitation: "The area of the retina reflected in the test is very small but rather it shows summation of the area."
 * Also really like the structure of the differential diagnosis section, seems like a great way to break up the info and present it to both laypeople and medical professionals
 * P.S. I fixed some very minor typos along the way, hope that's ok :)


 * Great work overall, seems like a significantly improved article from when we started! Doc4Man (talk) 01:32, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

Thanks Ben! I tried to simplify the intro a little by describing some of the words. I also broke up that lengthy sentence in hopes of making it easier to read. I will see about the graphics. They do have a nice one that is from the Peds Association and i referenced the red eye effect and leukocoria pages which have great pictures. Will keep an eye out for a good one thougk. Thanks for all your help and edits! - Carli — Preceding unsigned comment added by Carlihaasbroek (talk • contribs) 18:41, 13 December 2017 (UTC)