Clinical Skills Flashcards
perimetry
visual field testing
FOLDARS
F- Frequency O - Onset L - Location D - Duration A - Associated signs/symptoms R - Relief S - Severity Note - do for every chief complaint
DEA
Drug Enforcement Administration
CSA
Controlled Substances Act
ROI
Release of Information
AIDET
Model of Patient Satisfaction A - Acknowledge I - Introduce D - Duration E - Explanation T - Thank you.
PII
Personally Identifiable Information eg) name, address
PHI
Protected Health Information
HIPAA
Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act - sets standards for protecting patient data)
Symptoms of Eye Problems
- reported by patient; story
eg) visual symptoms, visual disturbances, physical discomfort, physical changes
Signs of Eye Problems
abnormalities of the eye directly observed
Dose
quantity of medication ie) 500 mg
Dosage
size or frequency of dose ie) 3 times a day
emergent
- immediate attention
urgent
- seen with a day
routine
- longer standing problem
optical infinity
- distance where light rays are virtually parallel
visual acuity
- ie) 20/70 - the greater the denominator, the worse the vision
- 3 phenomena: detection, recognition & resolution
snellen chart
- for visual acuity
- optotype: letters
sloan chart
- for visual acuity
- letters with standard spacing, upside down pyramid
ETDRS
- early treatment diabetic retinopathy study chart
- inverted pyramid with 5 optotypes
- for low vision patients
Lea numbers
- numbers 5, 6, 8 & 9 blur into nondescript once past limits of recognition ability
allen pictures
- objects universally recognized
- ie) hand, truck, horse
Lea symbols
- four: square, circle, house, apple
- all are blurry circles beyond acuity
tumbling E’s
- resolution test
Landolt’s Broken Rings
- resolution test
one minute of arc
- amount of angle where a normal eye can detect the separation of two points
- one degree = 60 min of arc
ie) person with 20/20 can distinguish an object that subtends 5 min of arc
crowding phenomenon
- patient sees smaller letters if shown one at a time vs. a row of letters
pinhole
- opaque disk with a tiny hole in center to look through
- allows only direct light rays (not scattered) into eye
- increased acuity through pinhole if refractive error causing reduced far vision
Teller acuity cards
- for babies
- gratings of various frequencies (babies prefer pattern over blank)
- peep hole in card for examiner to watch babies response
Photostress Recovery test
- how quickly pigments in cone cells regenerate after being depleted of ligth sensitive pigments with white light
Pelli Robson Chart
- for contrast sensitivity
- letters same size but decrease in contrast
Brightness Acuity Test (BAT)
- testing glare
- look through an illuminated half globe & read eye chart