Finals Flashcards
(110 cards)
PEC stands for
Primary Eye Care
an integral part of comprehensive eye care
Primary Eye Care
targeted not only towards preventing blindness and visual impairment but also towards providing services to _______________________
redress ocular morbidity
True or false
PEC is a secondline activity, providing care and identifying disease before it becomes a serious medical condition.
False
Components of primary eye care
Eye health education
Symptom identification
Visual acuity measurement
Basic eye examination
Diagnosis
Timely referral
E S V B D T
Primary eye care is the provision of ____________, _____________, ______________ care that meets patients’ eye care needs in a comprehensive and competent manner.
appropriate, accessible, and affordable
TRUE OR FALSE
PEC provides the patient with the second contact for eye care as well as a lifetime of continuing care.
False
13 Primary eye care services include:
- Educating patients about maintaining and promoting healthy vision.
- Performing a comprehensive examination of the visual system.
- Screening for eye diseases and conditions affecting vision that may be asymptomatic.
- Recognizing ocular manifestations of systemic diseases and systemic effects of ocular medications.
- Making a differential diagnosis and definitive diagnosis for any detected abnormalities.
- Performing refractions.
- Fitting and prescribing optical aids, such as glasses and contact lenses.
- Deciding on a treatment plan and treating patients’ eye care needs with appropriate therapies.
- Counseling and educating patients about their eye disease conditions.
- Recognizing and managing local and systemic effects of drug therapy.
11.Determining when to triage patients for more specialized care and referring to specialists as needed and appropriate.
- Coordinating care with other physicians involved in the patient’s overall medical management.
- Performing surgery when necessary.
Medical specialists and other health professionals, who typically don’t have initial contact with patients, provide _________
Secondary care
Examples of secondary care physicians
Cadiologist
Rheumatologist
Urologist
Physical therapist
Respiratory therapist
Speech therapist
Occupational therapist
Another category of secondary care is
Hospital care or acute care
The term covers care as an admitted patient in a hospital, a visit to a hospital ER, attendance in childbirth, medical imaging (radiology) services and care within an intensive care unit.
Hospital care or acute care
necessary treatment for a short period of time for a brief but serious illness, injury or other eye health condition.
Acute care
Examples of conditions that needs acute care
Cataract
Glaucoma
Trachoma
Patients being treated requiring a higher level of care in a hospital may be considered to be in
tertiary care
Physicians and equipment at this level are highly specialized
Tertiary care
Tertiary care services include such areas as
cardiac surgery, cancer treatment and management, burn treatment, plastic surgery, neurosurgery and other complicated treatments or procedures
Fourth level of care
Quaternary Care
A more complex level of tertiary care
Quaternary care
highly specialized and experimental treatments and procedures are considered to be at the _____________ level
Quaternary care
TRUE OR FALSE
Secondary care is specialized consultative health care, usually for in patients
FALSE
Centralized at a major health care complex.
A medical teaching hospitals, eye hospitals or eye centers.
TERTIARY EYE CARE
PHC based on the following principles :
Social equity
Nation-wide coverage
Self-reliance
Inter-sectoral coordination
People’s involvement in the planning and implementation of health programs
SNSIP
proposed a set of PRINCIPLES for primary health care
The 1978 Declaration of Alma-Ata