Quiz 2 Flashcards
How close should you be to the patient when doing DO?
1.5 to 3cm
How far off the visual axis should you be when doing DO?
15-20 degrees
Should patient have just one eye, or both eyes open for DO?
Both eyes
If you lose the red reflex when beginning DO, what should you do?
Pull back and start over
As you move closer to the patient with the DO, what lens power should you be adding?
Minus power
When you get the nerve or a vessel in view, what should you do with the power wheel?
Turn it until you get the clearest possible view
Why should you do DO with both eyes open?
To reduce your accommodation
Why should you have the patient keep both eyes open and look across the room?
To reduce their accommodation
Using your fingers as a spacer between your patient and yourself, you can also use that finger for what purpose?
A pivot point to move and follow blood vessels and such
What should you tell your patient for patient education?
Where to look, keep both eyes open, and that you will get very close
When doing DO, what correction should you be using?
Your habitual correction
If your patient is wearing contacts for DO, should they remove them?
No
If you patient is wearing glasses for DO, should they remove them?
Yes
What is the fixation aperture of the DO scope used for?
Observation of macula
Estimation of optic nerve size
What is the slit aperture of the DO used for?
To help determine elevations or depressions of the retina
What is the DO cobalt filter used for?
In combination with fluorescein, it is used to view small lesions, abrasions and foriegn objects on the cornea
What does the red-free filter exclude from the exam field?
Red rays
What does the red-free filter help you view in DO?
Veins, arteries, and nerve fibers
When using the cobalt filter and fluorescein with DO, you will most likely be using what lens?
+20
What are some things that the red-free filter helps to ID?
Retinal hemorrhages Choroidal nevus vs retinal pigmentation Nerve fiber loss ON rim tissue Enhance NFL
When switching to the cobalt filter of the DO, a lesion you were viewing turns black. Where is it located?
In the retina
Red-free light only penetrates how far?
To the RPE
Where does white light from the DO scope penetrate?
To the choroid
How does the DO view the retina?
Upright
What are the two ways the retina can be viewed upright, rather than inverted?
DO
Goldmann Hruby lens
What fundus viewing techniques give an inverted, reversed, aerial image?
Fundus biomicroscopy
BIO
What is the mag of DO?
15x
The magnification of DO is dependent on what?
Examiner’s refractive error, and the patient’s refractive error
How big of a field of view is seen in DO?
2 disc diameters
What is the code for extended ophthalmoscopy?
92225
What is required for detailed ophthalmoscopy?
A detailed sketch with labeling
Interpretation
Plan of treatment
How many colors should be in an extended ophthalmoscopy drawing?
4-6
What artifact is colored in light red in retinal mapping?
Attached retina
What artifacts are colored in dark red in retinal mapping?
Retinal arteries
Preretinal or intraretinal hemorrhages
What artifact is colored light blue in retinal mapping?
Retinal detachment
What artifacts are colored dark blue in retinal mapping?
Retinal veins
Margins of retinal breaks
Lattice - outlined then crosslined
What artifacts are colored black in retinal mapping?
Chorioretinal pigmentation
What artifacts are colored yellow in retinal mapping?
Intraretinal or subretinal exudates
Cotton Wool Spots
What artifacts are colored green in retinal mapping?
Vitreous Opacities