While working in a neonatal ICU. Your team delivers a preamature infant at 27 weeks of gestation and weighing 1500gm. How soon will you request fundus examination by an ophthalmologist?
Immediately
3 – 4 weeks after delivery
At 34 weeks gestational age
At 40 weeks gestational age
All babies weighing less than 1.5 kg at birth or having a gestation period of less than 32 weeks should be screened with indirect ophthalmoscopy for retinopathy of prenaturity, between 32 and 36 weeks post conception.