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US and Canda Definition of blindness

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20/200 or worse or 20/125 or worse on logMar. Greatest VF less than 20 degrees with goldman III4e.

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US and Canada Definition of VI

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20/70 or worse.

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Visual Impairment

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A functional limitation of the eye

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Visual Disability

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A limitation of the abilities of the individual

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Visual Handicap

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A limitation of personal and socioeconomic independence

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Main cause of blindness

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ARMD (in developed) Cataracts (in undeveloped) Glaucoma, DR.

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_____ of kids with VI are multiply handicaped

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75%

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Central Vision loss causes

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Hereditary macular dystrophies, ARMD, foveal hypoplasia (Aniridia, Albinism)

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Peripheral Vision Loss

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RP like dystrophies, glaucoma, CVA, TBI.

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Central and peripheral vision loss

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ON conditions, late stage dystrophies, DR, ROP

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Conditions with photosensitivity

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aniridia, albinism, achromtopsia, Retinal dystrophies, corneal scar/dystrohies, congenital glaucoma.

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Conditions with color vision changes

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achromtopisa, cone dystrophies, ON disease.

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Conditions with contrast changes

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cataracts, glaucoma, retinal dystrophies, corneal dystrophies/scarring.

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Conditions with Nystagmus

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Any early onset diseases affecting the foveal pathway

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VA when don’t need LV but maybe an add

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20/100 or better (kid) or 20/50 (adult)

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LV when need magnification 2-5X

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20/100-20/250 (kid) or 20/60-20/100 (adult)

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Need LV devices

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20/300-20/800 (kid) or 20/100-20/400 (adult)

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Brail use

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20/1000 (kid) or 20/400 adult.

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What does VI impact in a child’s development

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Gross and fine motor skills, cognitive develop, socialization and communication.

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Walking age for VI child

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18-24 months (normal is 9 months)

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Fine motor development in VI

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Vision leads tactile exploration and vice versa so it is delayed.

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Language acquisition in VI

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Have the same rate of language development but their development of descriptive language lags.

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Those with _____ VI complain of decreased hearing ability

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acquired.

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Conceptual issues with VI

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colors, entire object in 3D, figure ground, size and shape.

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Who with VI is most likely to suffer from literacy
Moderate (20/100-20/400)
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Bioptic Driving laws
20/70-20/200. Daylight driving.
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Why would adults need higher magnification than predicted based on VA
Hard for them to find a new preferred foveal locus.
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VA that leads to good prognosis with LV device
20/800 or better
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Do you trial frame with a phoropter
NO! use a trial frame. Allows for vertex distance and eccentric viewing.
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Which axis should you scope?
Patient's axis of fixation
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JND equation
(denominator)/100
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Prescribing for near
Need 2x magnification above threshold for comfortable viewing.
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How to use an add for pre-oresbyope?
Use RDM. They get closer. Plus lens will barely do anything. Will just make them more comfortable. No WOW factor.
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Contrast threshold
The lowest threshold the patient can recognize optoptypes
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Contrast reserve
The ratio of contrast of object to contrast threshold.
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Most people CT
1-3% of the acuity demands of reading material so contrast reserve 20/1 or 30/1
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What contrast reserve will the patient have difficulty
below 10/1
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Bailey Lovie charts
10% contrast and 90% contrast with change in optotype size. Normal difference is 2 lines. Drop of 4 lines is significant.
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Peli-robinson
Perform at 2x threshold. Functional defficeins with CT is 5% or greater.
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Which CT is better
Bailey Lovie better for early dystrophies and things like cataracts. Peli can be used on LV patient.
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How to help BV in young children
Add with BI prism
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Stereo test to use on LV
Local test. Very rarely get global.
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Testing VF in LV
Can use goldman or 24-2 or 30-2.
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Confrontation VF
Finger wiggling works the best.
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Tangent Screen and Campimeter
Test with 9mm whit stimulus at 1 m. Next test 18 mm target at 2 m. The field should expand to twice the original size. Failure to expand is nonphysiolgoical.
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Testing bulls eye lesion with macular lesion
tell them to center their blindspot over the target.
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Lesion in relation to PRL
If to the right make it hard to saccade when reading. If to the left make it hard to saccade to beginning of line.
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VA is technically a measure of ____ but is described in ____ terms
angular, linear
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Types of VA in increasing difficulty
detection, resolution, recognition, hyperaciuity.
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Levels of VA documentation
NLP (or total blindness), LP w/o projection, LP with projection, VA.
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Do you take into account EF when measuring?
NO! Look at their central vision.
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VF determination for LV
Widest diameter VF is 20 degrees or less or -22 DB of worse mean deviation on automated
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VF determination for VI
Visual field loss in the periphery (such as glaucoma or RP) or in a sector.
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Hyperacidity typical threshold
3-8 arc seconds
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Resolution typical threshold
1 arc minute
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What does a better hyperacidity than a resolution in LV indciate
There is some macular function left.
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Coding with LV
Code for medical or pathological conditions, Code for legal blindness, and then anything after
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Code for legal blindness
H54. 8
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logMar Distance
Either 4m or 6m. Most often 4m though.
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Variation of LogMar based on lines and letter
Each line varies by 0.1 and each letter by 0.02.
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Fein bloom chart
Calibrated for feet. Can get as close at 2-3 feet.
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FrACT
A computer based test where you have to indicate the position of landolt C's. Can get as low as Feinbloom chart.
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BRVT
Goes from tumbling E's to grating to b and white pair.
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Standards for contrast
Background luminance by 80-320 and characters be no more than 15% of the background luminance.
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What does increased VA with color contrast indicate
The need for tinted spectacles.
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Landolt C's can by ____ better than other optotypes
20-25% as it is resolution and not recognition.
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What does snellen fraction mean
The denometer is the distance that the target subtends 5 arc min.
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1/2 JND
Sphere bracketing lens, cya test lens, crossed cylinder lens
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full JND
Cylinder bracketing lens
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Angular subtense of MAR
5 times the MAR
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Preferred method for recording VA
M notation
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Point
1 point is 0.353 mm
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Point to snellen
Multiple pt by 6.25
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Recommendations for testing vA
Binocular and then better eye.
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Spectacle plane
12-15 mm from cornea
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Keplerian
Two positive lenses with focal spots corresponding.
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Galilean
Objective is positive and eyepiece is negative.
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LIM
w image/w object or 1-du/1-dv
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RDM
uref/uaided
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RSM
y2/y1
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Telescope LIM
1/1-tFobj.
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How to predict Near VA
From Far VA
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Near viewing with high or irregular astigmatism
Can be increased VA at near due to increased DOF
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Predicting Near VA in M notation
(MAR)*uref or (VA)*RDM
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Predicted add to read 1 M print
1/far VA
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Predicted add for any demand
1/far va (1/actual demand)
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RIM
Measured VA/Demand
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Magnification value on telescopes
NOT RIM
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Equivalent dioptric value
the value that allows the comparison of different magnification devices
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Principal plane of plano convex lens
Vertex of the convex surface
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Principal plane of biconvex
midpoint of front and back lens
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Gaussian Equation
Feq=F1+F2-t/n(F1F2)
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Calculating power from lens clock
FT=FC(Nt-1/NC-1) NC=1.53 or 1.56
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Finding Feq by measuring image formed
1/distance
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Finding Feq by measuring image sizes
y2(u/y1). u must be greater than v and greater than 4 times y1.
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Systems that do incorporate Ametropia, accommodation, or add
Feq=F1+F2-DF1F2.
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Myopic RE is
+
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Hyperopic RE is
-
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If a device is held in the spectacle plane what does the LIM equal
1. Only helps with the working distance. so RIM=RDM
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RIM of a LV device when V=0
RIM=FeqX-uref
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RDM
Ref/uaided or Feq X -uref
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When is RIM constant?
When V=0
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Maximum equivalent power of an add
When d=0
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When d=fdevice
then the add will not contribute to Feq.
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When d>Fdevice
Then Feq will be less than Fdevice
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ER
Feq=ERX F add
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EVD
Where we would have to place an object to subtend the same angle as the virtual image. ER=d-v/ER
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Predicted VA
EVD X Initial VAm/initial viewing distance
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FOV
A/d(EVD) or A/D(feq)
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FOV when working distance equals focal lenghth
FOV equals the aperture size regardless of the image distance.
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When does FOV incresase
when working distance is greater than focal length and image mergence is non zero
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Effective magnifiaction
F/4
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Conventional magnification
F/4+1
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Largest value that binocular vision can occur
+10D
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Advantages of high plus spectcles
Largest FOV as close to spectacle plane.
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Disadvantages of high plus spectacles
Fixed lens position poor for patients who use eccentric viewing. Writing is difficult if add greater than 10.
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When should you do single vision reading prescription
If add more than 3.50D
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Hand magnifiers advantages
Greater working distance, good for eccentric viewing,
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Hand magnifiers disadvantages
Reduced FOV, Must use correct working distance
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Guidelines to prescribe hand magnifers
Should minimize working distance and view through distance correction,
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Freestanding devices advantages
Normal reading distance, good for short tasks,
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Distanvatges to freestanding devices
smallest FOV, Aberrations is viewed at an angle. Patient must accommodate.

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