Publications by authors named "D Sigesmund"
Article Synopsis
- The study investigates how pet owners use information and communication technologies (ICTs) during virtual consultations with veterinarians and their attitudes towards such interactions.
- Most participants preferred face-to-face consultations over virtual options, with a significant number reporting limited experience using live videoconferencing.
- Despite a neutral overall sentiment towards virtual consultations, factors such as age and comfort with videoconferencing were positively linked to the likelihood of recommending this method.
Veterinarians are reluctant to recommend virtual consultations to a fellow veterinarian.
J Am Vet Med Assoc
December 2023
Objective: To explore veterinarians' use of virtual veterinarian-client-patient consultations before and during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and examine veterinarians' attitudes toward virtual consultations.
Sample: 135 companion animal veterinarians in Canada, the US, and Europe.
Methods: An anonymous online survey was distributed to gather participating veterinarians' use of information and communication technologies and their perception of virtual consultations' effect on patient care, client communication, and their own well-being.
Cortical binocularity and monocular optokinetic asymmetry in early-onset esotropia.
Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci
July 1998
Purpose: To investigate the correlation between directional asymmetry in ocular responses to monocularly viewed optokinetic stimuli (monocular optokinetic nystagmus, MOKN) and sensory fusion in infants and toddlers with early-onset esotropia.
Methods: Subjects were 14 infants and toddlers with early-onset esotropia (7-26 months old; median, 10 months), and 16 with no esotropia (6-22 months; median, 11 months) who provided control data. Monocular optokinetic nystagmus in response to a 30 degrees/sec square-wave grating (0.
Background: Candida is becoming an important nosocomial pathogen as the incidence of hospital-acquired candidemia is rising. Candida endophthalmitis is a good indicator of systemic candidiasis in hospitalized patients.
Methods: Thirteen (17%) of 76 ophthalmologic consultations for Candida endophthalmitis in our institution had positive findings during a 12-month period.
Purpose: Dystrophin, the Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene product, has been localized to the outer plexiform layer of normal human retina. The purpose of this study is to define completely the ocular phenotype associated with mutations at Xp21, the Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene locus.
Methods: Twenty-one patients with a diagnosis of Duchenne muscular dystrophy and five patients with Becker muscular dystrophy had ophthalmologic examinations, including electroretinograms (ERGs).