Refraction 1 Flashcards
Name the chart that measures VA?
Snellen chart
Name of the color deficiency test 2
Ishihara Test
Farnsworth D-15
What is the purpose of the duochrome chart?
Refine the final sphere in the visual assessment
Which equipment is used to check refractive error in young children?
Retinoscope
Name the test that requires red lens on od and a green on the os?
Worth’s four dot test
What would the chief complaint be of a patient with diplopia?
Double vision
Term for myopia resulting from the elongation of the globe of the eye
Axial myopia
What is the term for the eye’s ability to change in power in order to focus on objects at different distances?
Accommodation
What is the purpose of mydriatic drops in the eye?
Dilates the pupil
What is the term when both eyes are directed in the same direction except when one eye is covered?
Heterophoria
What are the 4 forms of medication that is instilled into the eye?
Solution, suspension, ointment, systematic
What are the four steps of subjective refinement? In order. 4 MARKS QUESTION IN QUIZ
Sphere, cylinder axis, cylinder power, sphere
What does cycloplegic agents do? 2
act by paralyzing the sphincter muscle of the iris, causing dilation
paralyzes the ciliary muscle, which inactivates accommodation
What do Mydriatic agents do?
act on the iris musculature and dilate the pupils
What do miotics do?
act by stimulating the sphincter muscle of the iris, which constricts the pupil
What can topically applied steroids do the eye? 4
- raise the pressures
-activate the growth of virsus
-activate the growth of bacteria
-cause delay in wound healing
Explain VA and how it is determined
determined by the smallest object that can be clearly seen and distinguished at a distance compared to distance the patient is from the chart letters / distance from the chart at which a normal person can see.
What happens if the patient squints when obtaining the VAs?
false/wrong reading, only allows central rays in which makes the vision better
What does ocular motility refer to?
the movements of the eye in all directions of gaze and to its relationship in movement with its fellow eye
When assessing the ocular motility, what are we looking for? 3
-the vision or fixation of each eye
-alignment of both eyes in all directions of gaze
-the ability of the two eyes to work together binocularly
What are the 9 positions of gaze?
-dextroversion (right gaze),
-levoversion (left gaze),
-supraversion (straight-up gaze),
-infraversion (straight-down gaze)
-4 oblique positions
-primary gaze
What is the Hirschberg’s test?
a penlight test- shines the light in the child’s eyes and notes the position of the reflex of light.
What 4 conditions could be present if the light reflex in the hirschberg’s test is not in the center of the pupil?
i. Esotropia - reflex is temporally placed in one eye and is normal in the other eye
ii. Exotropia – reflex is nasally placed in one eye.
iii. Hypertropia – reflex is inferiorly placed
iv. Hypotropia – reflex is superiorly placed.
What is the Krimsky’s test?
Prisms are placed in front of the fixating eye until its forced to move over (note the prism needed, it is the same as the deviation present)
What is the cover test? and what does/could it show?
manifest strabismus tropia is revealed by observation by observation of any eye movements of the uncovered eye to take up fixation when the cover is placed before the fellow eye.
What is the near point of convergence?
the point at which fusion can no longer be maintained and one eye deviates outward. The px will see double
What is the 4 worth dot testing? 3
investigating fusion, suppression, and binocular functions of the eyes ability to work together
4 worth dot test, 2 red lights seen?
left eye suppression
4 worth dot test, 3 green lights seen?
right eye suppression
4 worth dot test, 3 green on the left and 2 red on the right seen?
Esotropia: no suppression
4 worth dot testm 2 red on the left and 3 green on the right seen?
Exotropia: no suppression