COA STUDY QUESTIONS
COA STUDY QUESTIONS WITH GUARANTEED ACCURATE ANSWERS| VERIFIED
Name the nine components of the ophthalmic history. - Accurate Answer✅✅Chief
complaint, present illness, past ocular history, ocular medications, general medical
and surgical history, systemic medications, allergies, social history, and family
history.
Why is it important to specifically ask a patient about the medications they are
taking? - Accurate Answer✅✅Because certain medications may affect the eyes.
What is the proper response to a patient's request from the ophthalmic technician
for medical advice or a diagnosis? - Accurate Answer✅✅Refer the patient to the
ophthalmologist
What is the term used for the reason for the patient's visit? - Accurate
Answer✅✅Chief complaint
,What elements are important in social history taking? - Accurate
Answer✅✅Smoking, alcohol, and drug use
Prior use of topical ocular pharmaceutical agents is part of a patient's ________. -
Accurate Answer✅✅Past ocular history
Pertinent family history of a patient should include which relatives? - Accurate
Answer✅✅Parents, grandparents, and genetic siblings
A patient describing an experience of getting hives after taking sulfa drugs is
providing information about __________. - Accurate Answer✅✅An allergic
reaction
What is the term for the spasmodic, rhythmic dilating, and contracting pupillary
movements during pupil function testing? - Accurate Answer✅✅Hippus
What is the name of the test used for detecting a relative afferent pupillary defect?
- Accurate Answer✅✅Swinging flashlight test
Which muscle of the iris constricts in bright light? - Accurate
Answer✅✅Sphincter
What is pupil dilation termed? - Accurate Answer✅✅Mydriasis
What is the term used when there is a difference in pupil size? - Accurate
Answer✅✅Anisocoria
What is pupillometry? - Accurate Answer✅✅The measurement of pupillary
diameters.
, What is the name of the reflexive reaction that occurs when a light is directed into
one pupil and the pupil of the opposite eye simultaneously reacts - Accurate
Answer✅✅Consensual pupillary reaction
Calibration of the applanation tonometer should be checked approximately every
_____ months. - Accurate Answer✅✅Two (or sooner with regular use)
When cleaning the goniolens, what is uses to rinse off the methycellulose? -
Accurate Answer✅✅Warm running water
When replacing a light bulb _____ can diminish its effectiveness and life. -
Accurate Answer✅✅Oil from fingers
Diagnostic lenses that contact the eye can be sterilized using? - Accurate
Answer✅✅Ethylene Oxide gas
How should the removable glass slides inside the American Optical acuity
projector be cleaned? - Accurate Answer✅✅Wipe with clean, soft lint-free towel
or photographic lens paper
If dust accumulates on the mirror of the slit lamp, the technician may clean it by
using what cleaning methods? - Accurate Answer✅✅A lint-free cloth, a lens
brush, or a blast of air
Who should repair and maintain equipment such as a laser? - Accurate
Answer✅✅A qualified service technician.
COA STUDY QUESTIONS WITH GUARANTEED ACCURATE ANSWERS| VERIFIED
Name the nine components of the ophthalmic history. - Accurate Answer✅✅Chief
complaint, present illness, past ocular history, ocular medications, general medical
and surgical history, systemic medications, allergies, social history, and family
history.
Why is it important to specifically ask a patient about the medications they are
taking? - Accurate Answer✅✅Because certain medications may affect the eyes.
What is the proper response to a patient's request from the ophthalmic technician
for medical advice or a diagnosis? - Accurate Answer✅✅Refer the patient to the
ophthalmologist
What is the term used for the reason for the patient's visit? - Accurate
Answer✅✅Chief complaint
,What elements are important in social history taking? - Accurate
Answer✅✅Smoking, alcohol, and drug use
Prior use of topical ocular pharmaceutical agents is part of a patient's ________. -
Accurate Answer✅✅Past ocular history
Pertinent family history of a patient should include which relatives? - Accurate
Answer✅✅Parents, grandparents, and genetic siblings
A patient describing an experience of getting hives after taking sulfa drugs is
providing information about __________. - Accurate Answer✅✅An allergic
reaction
What is the term for the spasmodic, rhythmic dilating, and contracting pupillary
movements during pupil function testing? - Accurate Answer✅✅Hippus
What is the name of the test used for detecting a relative afferent pupillary defect?
- Accurate Answer✅✅Swinging flashlight test
Which muscle of the iris constricts in bright light? - Accurate
Answer✅✅Sphincter
What is pupil dilation termed? - Accurate Answer✅✅Mydriasis
What is the term used when there is a difference in pupil size? - Accurate
Answer✅✅Anisocoria
What is pupillometry? - Accurate Answer✅✅The measurement of pupillary
diameters.
, What is the name of the reflexive reaction that occurs when a light is directed into
one pupil and the pupil of the opposite eye simultaneously reacts - Accurate
Answer✅✅Consensual pupillary reaction
Calibration of the applanation tonometer should be checked approximately every
_____ months. - Accurate Answer✅✅Two (or sooner with regular use)
When cleaning the goniolens, what is uses to rinse off the methycellulose? -
Accurate Answer✅✅Warm running water
When replacing a light bulb _____ can diminish its effectiveness and life. -
Accurate Answer✅✅Oil from fingers
Diagnostic lenses that contact the eye can be sterilized using? - Accurate
Answer✅✅Ethylene Oxide gas
How should the removable glass slides inside the American Optical acuity
projector be cleaned? - Accurate Answer✅✅Wipe with clean, soft lint-free towel
or photographic lens paper
If dust accumulates on the mirror of the slit lamp, the technician may clean it by
using what cleaning methods? - Accurate Answer✅✅A lint-free cloth, a lens
brush, or a blast of air
Who should repair and maintain equipment such as a laser? - Accurate
Answer✅✅A qualified service technician.
