Test 3 Flashcards
(100 cards)
Leading cause of blindness if not corrected
Cataracts: Usually later in life
Leading cause of blindness in the USA
Diabetes
What does macular degenration cause
Central vision loss
- What is glaucoma caused by?
- What is effected first?
- Elevated pressue
- Peripheral vision
- What causes loss of transient vision in a young person
- Old person?
- migraine
- emboli problem
What is associated with retnial detachment?
Flashes of light
- What is diplopia in one eye significant for?
- Both eyes?
- Optical problem
- alignment problem
- What does itching of the eye signify?
- allergies
What changes in the eye happen with thyroid disease
Exophthamos (bulging of the eye)
What happens to the eyes with diabetes?
Large change of vision corrections and paraylsis of CN III, IV and VI.
KNOW PIC OF EYE FROM LATERAL VIEW

On Eye I and II lecture

KNOW EXTRAOCCULAR MUSCLES IN LECTURE
ON LECTURE EYE I and II
KNOW EXTERNAL EYE
ON LECTURE EYE I AND II
What to look for on periorbital skin
- Swelling
- Redness
- Lesions
- Rashs
What to look for on eyebrows?
- Amount of hair
- Scaliness
What to look for at the eyelash?
- Crusting
- Amount of lashes
What to look for on the eye lids?
- Edema
- Color
- Width of palpebral fissures
- Adequacy of eyelid closure
What to look for at the lacrimal apparatus?
- Swelling
- tearing or dryness
What to look for a tth econjunctiva and sclera?
- Color
- Vascular pattern
- Nodules
- Swelling
- Foreign bodies
How to remove foreign body in upper eyelid
- Take wooden part of cotton- tipped applicator on outer half of upper eyelid
- Use your other hand to pull the lid away from the globe
- As this happens you roll the lid
Snellen Eye Chart:
- How to perform test?
- What does this test for?
- Well lit area
- Position patient 20 feet from chart
- Have patient use glasses if they use the for anything other than reading
- Cover one eye and read smallest line possible
- Start left to right in one eye and right to left in other
- Well lit area
- Visual Acuity
How to test visual fields?
- Stand three feet from patient at eye level
- Have patient focus on your eye
- Test one eye at a time
- Patient should use glasses or contacts
- Slowly bring fingers into field of vision 45 degrees halfway between you and patient
- Have them tell you how many fingers
- Repeat for all 4 fields of the eye
Access EOMI
- How
- What are you looking for?
1.
- Stand 3 feet from patient and ask them to hold their haead still adn follow your fingers
- Draw a large X and a + with your index finger
- Do convergence- bring toward their eye
2.
Nystagmus- jerking or drifting of the eyes
Accomodation testing or near reaction testing
- What are you testing for?
- How to test
- Who looses this abillity
- Checking to see if the eyes will converge and pupils will constrict.
2.
- Stand to one side of your patient with yoru index finger or object 18” from your patient’s eyes and ask the patient to look at your finger.
- At this point eyes should converge and pupils should constrict
- Next, ask patient to look at the wall further away
- Eyes should diverge and pupils should should dialate
- Repeat several times
3. Older patients