Vision & Hearing

Question 1

Snellen requirements

Answer 1

20/40 bilateral & in each eye

If corrected, must be separately corrected

Question 2

Visual field exam

Answer 2

Passing = 70° in horizontal meridian in each eye

Question 3

Monocular vision

Answer 3

DQ’d unless exemption is applied for and granted

Exemptions good for 2 years, can only cert for 1 year

Question 4

Monocular vision exemption

Answer 4

≈2k drivers grandfathered into continual exemption s/p study from 1992-1996

Must get annual eye exams from ophtho

Question 5

Cataracts

Answer 5

Slowly progressive lens opacification that distorts light passage

Decreased acuity, contrast, and color

Question 6

Glaucoma

Answer 6

Decreased peripheral d/t optic nerve atrophy r/t unregulated IOP

Smelled usually normal

Question 7

Macular degeneration

Answer 7

Decreased detailed central vision

Snellen usually impaired, peripheral fine

Telescopic lenses are not okay for driving

Question 8

Retinopathy

Answer 8

Non-inflammatory retinal damage

Usually d/t DM

Question 9

Hearing tests

Answer 9

Forced whisper or audiometric

Just have to pass one

Question 10

Audiometric hearing test

Answer 10

Passing = no greater than 40dB average hearing loss, bilaterally, at different levels (2000 Hz, 1000 Hz, 500 Hz)

Question 11

Vertigo

Answer 11

WP = 2 months if asymptomatic and initial dx is BPV or acute/chronic peripheral vestibulopathy

Max cert = 2 years

Question 12

DQ-ing hearing conditions

Answer 12

1. Uncontrolled vertigo
2. Meniere’s dz
3. Labyrinthine fistula
4. Non-fxnal labyrinths