Entrance test Flashcards
Hirschberg test
- rough objective estimate measurement of deviation/strabismus
- useful in young and cooperative patients
How to do a Hirschberg test
A penlight is held straight in front of a patients face at about 50cm. The patient is instructed to fixate on the penlight with both eyes open
-finds if eye is turned out or in
Do you do Hirschberg one eye at a time or two?
- one eye at a time
- observe the position of corneal reflex
3 possible corneal reflexes in Hirschberg
- center of pupil
- nasal to the pupil
- temporal to the pupil
Nasal to the pupil
positive angle lambda/kappa/ exo posture
temporal to the pupil
negative angle lambda/kappa/ eso posture
strabismus
- if the reflexes are not in the same relative position
- the reflex will not be in the center of the deviated eye and it will be different from the relative angle lambda in that eye
absence of strabismus
the corneal reflex should be centered in both eyes
how to determine the amount of deviation
for 1mm of estimated deviation, it is approximately a deviation of 22 prism diopters
recording Hirschberg
- indicate that you did Hirschberg
- if no strabismus, record Ortho or symmetrical
- strabismus present, record the deviated eye, the size and direction of the deviation
Hirschberg: 44pd LET
Krimsky test
-use prisms to determine the angle of deviation seen on Hirschberg test
-not as accurate, only when you can’t perform cover test
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How to of Krimsky test
-prisms are placed in front of the fixating eye until the corneal reflexes are symmetrical
what kind of prism for esotropia?
BO
what kind of prism for exotropia?
BI
Near Point of Convergence (NPC)
- determines the ability to converge and maintain fusion
- both eyes on one target, ability to read
How to start NPC
- done with correction, good lighting, and start at about 40cm
- requires transilluminator, red glasses (if they don’t do well), near accomidative target (a 20/30 letter)
How yo do NPC
- tell pt to look at light
- ask if it is single or double, if double, move target further back
- move target towards pt while paying attention to eyes
- move it into the pt until the pt reports double or you see one eye loses fixation
- move target back again until the pt reports single vision
breakpoint
-move the target in until the pt reports double or you see one eye loses fixation, this distance is the break point
recovery
Move the target back again until the patient reports single vision or where you notice refutation, measure this distance, this is the recovery
NPC normal findings
Break 2.5cm/recovery 5cm, or, TTN (to the nose)
NPC abnormal
- repeat with red glass over right eye (or red green glasses)
- repeat 3rd time with an accomidative target
What does red/green glasses do for NPC?
dissociates what both eyes are doing. Eyes will recede more
convergence insufficiency complaints
repeat multiple times, there will be changes in the NPC each time because of fatigue
convergence is closely associated with what?
accommodation
What to record for NPC
- sc/cc
- target used
- distance (cm) where there was a break or diplopia (from bridge of nose or spec plane)
- distance of recovery
- deviated eye and direction
- diplopia or suppression(break without diplopia)
example
-NPC cc light: TTN
-NPC sc light: 10cm/15cm, OD out, suppression
red/green:15cm/20cm, OD out, suppression
accommodative: 12cm/16cm, OD out, suppression
What can a receded NPC cause?
- binocular vision problems
- eyestrain/asthenopia
- reading difficulties
- difficulties with near point tasks
Amplitude of accommodation
- measures patient ability to accommodate (in diopters)
- Pt wears correction, near point accommodation target, occluder, illumination
- MONOCULAR
Push up method
- tell pt to occlude one eye, tell patient to look at a row of letters (one or two lines better than BCVA at N)
- tell pt to keep the letters clea
- slowly move the letters closer to the patient, until the patient reports blur
- measure distance from patient’s spectacle plane in cm and convert to diopters
- occlude other eye and repeat
near point of accommodation
Where it begins blurs when the target is too near to them for them to accommodate