A support system for at least one of ophthalmic and optometric instruments. A first instrument supporting member is pivotable between a first storage position and a first use position. A second instrument supporting member is moveable between a second storage position and a second use position. The patient can be sequentially examined, in any order, by the first and second instruments while remaining in a test position.
A new and improved slit lamp microscope table with a front recess of suitable size to accommodate the torso of the occupant of a wheel chair or an obese individual. With the table set at an appropriate elevation, the handicapped individual can move his or her wheel chair to the vicinity of the table. The wheel chair is rolled toward the table until the user is located with his or her torso in the recess. Once the patient is in position, the table can be lowered to the point at which the arm rests of the table come into contact with the arms on the wheel chair and more positively hold the table and wheel chair in the desired relation.
A desktop including a first portion and a diagonal portion oriented diagonally with respect to the first portion. Both the first portion and diagonal portion each have a top surface, a bottom surface opposite said top surface, a plurality of side surfaces, and first and second longitudinal axes, respectively, that substantially bisect each portion. The first portion and diagonal portion are oriented so that the first longitudinal axis and the second longitudinal axis are diagonal to one another. The desktop also includes a return portion having a top surface, a bottom surface opposite the top surface, and a plurality of side surfaces. The return portion is joined with the first portion and has a third longitudinal axis that substantially bisects the top surface of the return portion. The third longitudinal axis is substantially perpendicular to the first longitudinal axis.
The apparatus provides an improved modified slit lamp assembly light source base and vertical support frame assemblies comprising chin and headrest vertical support legs wherein at least a lower portion of the chin rest vertical supports have been modified in at least a substantially widened fashion. The lower portion of the supports is further modified to jut back or bend away from a seated patient and toward the encroaching base of the slit lamp assembly to provide upper body accommodation while at the same time preventing a patient's upper body to encroach the base of the slit lamp. The assembly's chin/head support frame is mounted on a pivotal tabletop having a pivotal connection means, wherein the pivotal tabletop comprises a plurality of cut-out shapes each working in cooperative conjunction with the modified assemblies to accommodate obese, large-breasted patients and patients with degenerative back disorders, as well as obese doctors.