Confrontation Visual Fields

Question 1

Check patient’s peripheral vision

Answer 1

What is the purpose of confrontation visual fields?

Question 2

Glaucoma, brain tumors, neurological disorders, and age related changes

Answer 2

Peripheral field loss can come from

Question 3

Optic nerve

Answer 3

Confrontation visual fields evaluates the ____ nerve

Question 4

Quadrantanopsia

Answer 4

One fourth of the visual field is gone

Question 5

Hemianopsia

Answer 5

One half of the visual field is gone

Question 6

Homonymous

Answer 6

Both eyes involved, same side of visual FIELD affected

Question 7

Scotoma

Answer 7

Isolated area of visual field loss

Question 8

Glaucoma

Answer 8

Intraocular pressure causing a degeneration of the optic nerve

Question 9

Lesion

Answer 9

A break in the conduction of the nerve impulse

Question 10

Parietal lobe extinction phenomenon

Answer 10

When a stimulus is presented only in the defective field, the stimulus is seen but when there is simultaneous stimulus in the opposite hemifield, the stimulus in the contralesional field is not perceived

Question 11

Macular

Answer 11

Facial amsler tests for ___ defects

Question 12

FTFC

Answer 12

What is the notation for a normal confrontation field?