The Eye Exam Flashcards

1
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7 Elements of Patient History

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  1. Demographic
  2. Chief Complaint
  3. History of Present Illness
  4. Review of Systems
  5. Social history
  6. current medications
  7. Allergy to medications
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2
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Visual Acuity

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Measure of the finest detail the eye can detect

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3
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Snellen Letters

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The eye chart used to test distance vision

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4
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Snellen refraction

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Testing distance– Distance at which letter is standardized to be read

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5
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What does 20/40 mean?

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At 20 feet, the person read what is standardized to be read at 40 feet

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6
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What does cover/uncover testing do?

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Examines binocular relationship of the eyes (how well eyes are working together)

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7
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Esotropia

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Eye deviating inward

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8
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Exotropia

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Eye deviating outward

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9
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Hypertropia

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Eye deviating upward

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10
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What happens if you put an occulder over the fixated eye? *the good eye

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The deviated eye will quickly refixate

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11
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Keratometry

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Opthalmometry

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12
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Keratometry

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Measures curvature of the cornea and focusing power of cornea

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13
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Benefits of keratometry

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Doesn’t require patient responses

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14
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What keratometry can do?

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estimate focusing power of cornea, amount of astigmatism, evaluate integrity of surface of eye, estimate base curve of lens during contact lens fitting

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15
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Benefits of Automated Keratometers

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Quicker to get K-Reading, little training to use, automated refraction (if build in to machine)

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16
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Topography

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Measures thousands of points along cornea to provide curvature, refractive power, and radius of cornea

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Benefit of topography

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measures wide area and many points of measurement (keratometer only measures 4 points)

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18
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What is corneal topography used for?

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To screen before refractive surgery, fitting contacts, adjusting post surgical corneal transplants, diagnosing refractive disorders/diseases

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19
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What is Retinoscopy?

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Objective measure of refractive power of the eye

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20
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Retinoscope

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Hand-held instrument used to measure retinoscopy

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21
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How does retinoscope work?

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Bright light shined in patients eye, doctor examines the reflex of the pupil and then places lenses in front of eye to determine prescription

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22
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What is objective when using retinoscope?

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To find a lens that stops the reflex of pupil

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23
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“With” movement

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Add plus powered lenses

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24
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“against movement”

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minus powered lenses

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25
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Ocular Adnexa

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All adjacent structures of the eyes (eyelids, lashes, eyebrows, lacrimal apparatus, tarsal plates, orbit, muscles, conjunctiva

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26
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Manifest/Subjective Refraction

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Using patient responses to determine refraction (prescription)

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27
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What instrument is used for a subjective refraction?

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Phoropter

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28
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What is opthalmoscopy?

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Examination of the inside of the eye

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29
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What tool is used for opthalmoscopy and how does it work?

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An opthalmoscope– illuminates and inspects interior of the eye

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30
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Two types of opthalmoscopes?

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direct and binocular indirect

31
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Direct ophthalmoscope

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Hand held and yields a larger image but smaller field of view

32
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Binocular direct opthalamoscope

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Worn on the head, uses hand held lens- yields smaller image and much larger field of view– need dilation drops to get better internal view

33
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What is purpose of opthalmoscopy?

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To detect diseases and abnormalities in internal part of eye

34
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What is binocular vision?

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Eyes working together as a team

35
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What is tonometry?

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Test to measure intraocular pressure in the eyes

36
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What does tonometry help diagnose?

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Glaucoma

37
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Non Contact Tonometer (NCT)

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puff test for checking IOP

38
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Goldmann Tonometer

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Mounted to slit lamp, requires aenestic drop because probe touches cornea

39
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Tono-pen

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hand held tonometer but stil requires anesthetic drop to get a reading

40
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Visual field

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Area of space that is visible to the eye

41
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Perimetry

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Test to measure visual field

42
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Confrontation fields

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manual visual field test

43
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Humphrey, Dicon, Octupus

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Automated visual field test

44
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Biomicroscopy

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Slip- lamp examination to get highly magnified view of structures of the eye

45
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Usues of biomicroscope?

A

Observe contact lens fit, check for foreign bodies, look at all parts of front of the eye to check for health

46
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Can you view back of the eye with biomicroscope?

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Yes, but need special lenses

47
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What is fundus?

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bottom or base of anything (in medicine– inner lining of hollow organ)

48
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Ocular fundus

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Inner lining of eye (sensory retina and retinal pigment epithelium, brushs membrane, choroid)

49
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Fundus photo

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taking pic of back of eye to check eye helath-

50
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What does fundus photo see?

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Optic nerve, vitreous, macula, retina, and blood vessels

51
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How does fundus photo work?

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visualize back of eye by focusing light through the cornea, pupil, and lens

52
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Posterior pole

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Retina between optic nerve and macular area

53
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Arcades

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Normal pattern of retinal blood vessels

54
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Cup-to-disc ratio

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Percentage of disc occupied by optic cup

55
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Exudates

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Proteins/fatty fluid that leads from blood vessels into retinal tissue

56
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Cotton wool spots

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fluffy looking white deposits within retinal nerve fiber layer– small patches of retina that have lost their blood supply from vessel obstruction

57
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Nevus

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A mole on the eye

58
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Pachymetry/Pachymeter

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Measures thickness of cornea– determines if cornea is strong enough for surgery and monitors diseases that thicken cornea

59
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Lensometer

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Instrument used to measure prescription on glasses and contact lenses

60
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Asepsis

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practice of reducing contaminants to prevent infection

61
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Accomodation

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Eyes ability to focus objects from distance to near– the cyrstalline lens changing shape to refract light

62
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Emmetropia

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Image focuses on back of retina when accomodation is relaxed– no correction required

63
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Ametropia

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image is focused somewhere other than retina– requires correction

64
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Myopia

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When accommodation is relaxed, images are focuses in front of the retina resulting in blurry distance vision

65
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Causes of myopia

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Eye is too long

66
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How is myopia corrected?

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With minus lenses

67
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Hyperopia

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Farisightness, image focuses behind retina

68
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Causes of hyperorpia

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Cornea too flat or eyeball to short – needs plus power

69
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Astigmatism

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When is relaxed state, image is focused at two points

70
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Cause of astigmatism

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Cornea is longer at one meridian than the other

71
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Presbyopia

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Loss of ability to see up close (usually in old people)

72
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Cause of presbyopia

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Lens cant change shape (accommodate)

73
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Vertex distance

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distance from where the back of the spectacle lens rests in front of the eye to where the contact lens rest on the eye

74
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Is lens thinner or thicker in the center for hyperopia?

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Thicker