Find all the Morgan Lens resources you are looking for.
Find all of the resources you are looking for. From instructional videos to medical abstracts, here you will find all of the details on when, why and how you should use the Morgan Lens. The Morgan Lens is used in 90% of hospital emergency departments in the USA and can be inserted in less than 20 seconds.
A list of resources that will help in the initial training in the use for the Morgan Lens.
Adaptable protocol policy and competency exam that your organization can use to define how work is performed and evaluated.
This video is approximately five minutes long and gives instructions for the use of the Morgan Lens, including showing the insertion and removal and describing the recommended uses.
This PowerPoint Presentation covers uses and instructions for using the Morgan Lens. Speaker notes are included in the downloaded version. Click the button below to download.
The Morgan Lens instructions for use chart provides instructions for using the Morgan Lens continuous lavage or medication to the cornea and conjunctiva.
Examples of Hospital and EMS protocols or Morgan Lens references currently available on the Internet
This fact sheet contains information on buffer solutions, how they work, and why they are better for eye irrigation.
This fact sheet contains information on the treatment of ocular chemical burns.
This article presents the use of the Morgan Lens using text and photographs, as well as providing general information on chemical eye burns.
Loran B. Morgan, M.D., was welcomed as a Fellow of the International College of Surgeons (I.C.S.) during the annual meeting of the U.S. Section. The I.C.S. has 12,000 members from 111 nations.
Loran B. Morgan, a physician from Pipestone, Minnesota, served as a parachute battalion surgeon during World War II, where he developed the Morgan Lens to treat eye injuries. After the war, he practiced medicine in Torrington, Wyoming, eventually specializing in ophthalmology. Morgan’s innovative lens, now widely used in emergency rooms, and his dedication to patient care have left a lasting impact on the medical community.
Dr. Loran Morgan, an ophthalmologist from Torrington, Wyoming, invented the Morgan Medi-Flow Lens, a contact lens that delivers medication directly to the cornea. The lens, initially developed in Vietnam to treat eye injuries, has successfully treated various eye conditions, including severe burns and chronic Stevens-Johnson syndrome. One notable case is Shirley Canfield, a young girl who regained her vision after four years of blindness due to the lens treatment.
Honors and acclaim have come to Torrington’s Dr. Loran B. Morgan, ophthalmologist, but Brian’s letter represents the ultimate in personal satisfaction. Fan mail is a daily occurrence in the office of Torrington’s “medicine man” since his invention of a relatively simple device which aids in the healing of an injured or diseased eye.
Dr. Loran B. Morgan, Torrington’s ophthalmologist, has produced a plastic lens that helps to end pain in injured eyes and promotes healing, according to the November issue of the Journal of American Medical Association.
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Thanks for the opportunity to sing the praises of the Morgan Lens! Those of us who have been in the field for a while wonder what we ever did without them! We find two general uses for the lenses. One is for contact irritation: most typically, splashes. After local anesthetic, for ease of insertion, the lenses fit comfortably on patients of all ages and provide gentle and thorough irrigation of irritant substances. We have many cases of this type. The second most common use is for patients show suffer multiple injuries due to automobile accidents, major trauma, burns, falls, etc. Not only does the lens thoroughly irrigate the eye, removing most or all of the debris that has accumulated, it more importantly frees up the nurse's hands so that she can perform other lifesaving functions. Quite frankly, eye irrigation was treated as "the bottom of the list" often because other patient's other injuries were more devastating with higher morbidity and mortality. Particularly in the burn patient, the soothing effect of the irrigation and potential to prevent infection or further injury, make it an easy to use, valuable asset for patient care.
Registered Nurse (Montana)
The Morgan Lens is used in 90% of hospital emergency departments in the USA and can be inserted in less than 20 seconds. There simply is no other "hands-free" method of eye irrigation. Nothing else frees medical personnel to treat other injuries or to transport the patient while irrigation is underway. Nothing is more effective at treating ocular chemical, thermal, and actinic burns or removing non-embedded foreign bodies, even when the patient's eyes are closed tightly. Its design makes it simple and straightforward to use so minimal training is required.
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