COA STUDY GUIDE| 456 QUESTIONS| WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS

The "presenting complaint" is? correct answer: The main reason that the patient has come to the office. A mother brings in her 4 year old son. The mother says he has a lazy eye. What do you need to find out? correct answer: What does she mean by "lazy eye". A patient with heart problems? correct answer: May have hardening of the arteries in the eye. (Ocular disorders associated with heart problems include hardening of the arteries and/or blood vessel blockage) Knowledge of a patient's breathing or lung problems would be important if the patient also has? correct answer: Glaucoma (Certain glaucoma meds are contraindicated in patients with lung disease) Your patient states that he has rheumatoid arthritis. You should now ask symptom-related questions to find out if he has? correct answer: Dry eye (Dry eye is strongly associated with rheumatoid arthritis) Major infections that can affect the eye include? correct answer: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), gonorrhea, tuberculosis, and herpes simplex. A patient taking a diuretic probably has which health problem? correct answer: Heart trouble (Heart patients are placed on diuretics to reduce excess fluid in the body, thereby reducing heart strain)