MS EYES Flashcards
ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION OF VISION
● Ocular history
● Visual acuity
● Snellen chart
● Finger count or hand motion
Record each eye 20/20 means the patient can read the “20” line at a distance of 20 feet
Snellen chart
EXAMINATION OF THE EXTERNAL STRUCTURES
● note any evidence if irritation, inflammatory process, discharge
● assess eyelids and sclera
● assess pupils and pupillary response l, use darkened room
● note gaze and position of eye
● assess extraocular movements
● ptosis: drooping eyelid
● nystagmus: oscillating movement of eyeball
drooping eyelid
● ptosis
oscillating (move or swing back and forth at a regular speed.) movement of eyeball
● nystagmus
DIAGNOSTIC TESTS
- Ophthalmoscopy
- Slit-lamp examination
- Color vision testing
- Amsler grid
- Ultrasonography
- Fluorescein and indocyanine green angiography
examines cornea, lens, retina
- Ophthalmoscopy
a. a standard diagnostic procedure, which is also known as biomicroscopy.
b. combines a microscope with a very bright light.
c. Help diagnose the following: macular degeneration, a chronic condition affecting the part of the eye that is responsible for central vision. detached retina, a condition when the retina, which is an Important layer of tissue at the back of the eye, becomes detached from its base.
- Slit-lamp examination
a. Inability to distinguish certain shades of color.
b. The term “color blindness” is also used to describe this visual condition, but very few people are completely color blind.
- Color vision testing
a. Tests the vision for many of the signs of intermediate and late-satege age-related muscular degeneration
b. Normal vision: able to see all areas on the grid, and all lines appear straight
- Amsler grid
ability to obtain an impression of depth by superimposition of 2 subjects; perceiving 3D
Stereopsis
DIAGNOSTIC EVALUATION
- Tonometry:
- Gonioscopy:
- Perimetry testing
Measure IOP
- Tonometry
Visualizes the angle of the anterior chamber
- Gonioscopy
Evaluates field of vision
- Perimetry testing
blind areas in the visual field
Scotomas
IMPAIRED VISION
❖ Refractive errors:
❖ Emmetropia:
❖ Myopia:
❖ Hyperopia:
❖ Astigmatism:
❖ Presbyopia:
❖ Anisometropia:
Can be corrected by lenses which focus light rays on the retina
❖ Refractive errors
vision in one eye is worse than the vision in the other due to a difference in refractive error.
❖ Anisometropia
normal vision
❖ Emmetropia:
: nearsighted
❖ Myopia
farsighted
❖ Hyperopia
: a refractive error that makes it hard for middle-aged and older adults to see things up close
❖ Presbyopia
distortion due to irregularity of the cornea
❖ Astigmatism
PHYSIOLOGIC CHANGES OF THE EYE RELATED TO
AGING
● Decreased flexibility and elasticity of the lens to decrease or loss of accommodation.
● The lens yellows with age.
● Senile miosis (smaller size pupil) ends in the distortion of colors.
● Corneal, sclera, lens and vitreal changes produce increased light scatter in the eye causing glare.
● Decrease in lens transparency or increased opaqueness of the lens (cataract).
● Quantity and quality of tears are decreased
● irregular curvature of the corneal, causing distorted and blurred image (astigmatism)
Sudden onset localized swellings of the eyelid.
HORDEOLUM OR STYE
●can be painful but often heal without medical intervention
●can be external or internal
● home remedies: warm compress, pain meds over the counter
HORDEOLUM OR STYE
● In most cases, the cause of the infection is the Staphylococcus bacteria.
● An inflammation of the oil gland.
HORDEOLUM OR STYE
is an inflammation of the eyelid associated with a small collection of pus
HORDEOLUM OR STYE
ASSESSMENT:
● Tenderness
● Crusting of the margins of the Eyelids
● Burning sensation
● Itching of the eye
● Blurry vision
● Discharge of mucus from the eye
● Light sensitivity
● Tearing discomfort when blinking
HORDEOLUM OR STYE
CAUSES AND RISK FACTORS (STYE)
- Using cosmetics after their expiry date
- Not removing eye makeup before going to bed
- Not disinfecting contact lenses before putting them in changing contact lenses without hand washing
- inadequate nutrition
TREATMENT (STYE)
● warm compress
● antibiotics
- An internal stye an inflammation of the Meiborian gland, with painless growing, hard, non-tender round mass on the eyelid
CHALAZION
Chalazion is Painless
True
COMPLICATIONS (STYE)
● Chalazion or Meibomian cyst
● Pre septal or periorbital cellulitis
Stye is painful
True
CAUSES AND RISK FACTORS: (CHALAZION)
- Often occur in people with underlying inflammatory conditions that affect the eyes or skin, such as:
- Chronic blepharitis
- Acne rosacea
- Seborrheic dermatitis
- Meibomian gland dysfunction
TREATMENT (CHALAZION)
- Apply hot/warm compresses: helps stye come to a head, rupture, and spontaneously drain
- An external stye that does not resolve with compresses may need to be drained by a doctor.
- Because an internal stye rarely ruptures by itself, a doctor may have to surgically drain it.
- Gentle massage
- An eye inflammation of eyelid margins, with irritation, burning, itching, ulceration and eyelashes will fall out
BLEPHARITIS
Inflammation is often on the eyelids and the edge of the eyelids.
BLEPHARITIS
- Chronic bilateral inflammation of the eyelid margins.
- Usually involving hair follicles and glands.
- Characterized by the formation of excessive oil in the glands near the eyelid which is the preferred environment by bacteria that are normally found on the skin.
BLEPHARITIS
- Pain (mild to severe) on the eyelids.
- Lacrimation (watery eyes always.
- Restless due to itching / pain.
- Patients feel there is something in the eye.
- Embarrassment and lack of confidence due to the effects of the disease (the lashes fall out and not replaced).
- Eyes blurred and visual acuity decreased.
SUBJECTIVE DATA (BLEPHARITIS)