How are systemic medications administered? - Accurate AnswerOrally, injection (subcutaneously or intramuscularly) or intravenously
How should drops be properly instilled into a patient's eye? - Accurate AnswerInto the lower cul de sac (lower fornix)
What does the term idiosyncrasy refer to wi...
How are systemic medications administered? - Accurate Answer✅✅Orally,
injection (subcutaneously or intramuscularly) or intravenously
How should drops be properly instilled into a patient's eye? - Accurate
Answer✅✅Into the lower cul de sac (lower fornix)
What does the term idiosyncrasy refer to with ophthalmic drugs? - Accurate
Answer✅✅A bizarre, peculiar reaction to a drug that is not commonly seen, such
as tremors, excitability or even collapse
What is the name of the instrument used to neutralize lenses? - Accurate
Answer✅✅Lensometer (Lensmeter)
,When recording a prism in a spectacle prescription, what does the abbreviation BO
stand for? - Accurate Answer✅✅Base out
What is determined by focusing the thin lines in a manual lensometer? - Accurate
Answer✅✅The sphere of the spectacle prescription
What is the first step in performing lensometry? - Accurate Answer✅✅Focus the
eyepiece
When PRK is being performed, time remaining in the procedure should be
announced in increments of ______ - Accurate Answer✅✅10 seconds
Name the organism that is most destructive to the eye. - Accurate
Answer✅✅Pseudomonas Aeruginosa
What procedure using an Argon Laser is thought to destroy areas of ischemic
retina? - Accurate Answer✅✅Panretinal photocoagulation or panretinal laser
What type of intraocular injection is made at the Pars plana site with a needle and
syringe of medication? - Accurate Answer✅✅Intravitreal injection
What are the parallel movements of the eyes from one gaze position to another -
Accurate Answer✅✅Versions
What is the movement of one eye called - Accurate Answer✅✅Duction
Versions and ductions are tested by using ________ to test the six pairs of _______
muscles. - Accurate Answer✅✅Six Cardinal positions, yoke
,The movement of the eye outward toward the temple is called _____ - Accurate
Answer✅✅Abduction
What is the technique used to measure the radius of curvature of the anterior
corneal surface? - Accurate Answer✅✅A-Scan Keratometry Length
Measurements
Keratometry is performed with a device called a ______ - Accurate
Answer✅✅Keratometer or ophthalmometer
Give three examples in which a Keratometry measurement would be useful. -
Accurate Answer✅✅Contact lens fitting, refractive surgery, intraocular lens
calculations, keratoconus
Keratometry is measured in _____ - Accurate Answer✅✅Diopters
Measuring intraocular pressure is also called _____ - Accurate
Answer✅✅Tonometry
The higher the intraocular pressure of an eye, the ____ the eye - Accurate
Answer✅✅Harder
Applanation tonometry displaces less than ____ of aqueous. - Accurate
Answer✅✅0.5 microliters
When recording intraocular pressure, the reading on the Goldmann applanation
tonometer scale should be multiplied by ____. - Accurate Answer✅✅10
, Because there are no rods or cones in the optic nerve head a____ blind spot is
created in the normal visual field. - Accurate Answer✅✅Physiologic
A defect in the patient's superior temporal retina, will affect the patient's ____ field
of vision. - Accurate Answer✅✅Inferior nasal
The two basic methods employed to map the field of vision are ____ and ____
perimetry. - Accurate Answer✅✅Kinetic, static
A localized area of reduced sensitivity in a visual field that is surrounded by an
area of greater sensitivity is termed a ____. - Accurate Answer✅✅Scotoma
And unfocused eyepiece can lead to an error of ____. - Accurate Answer✅✅1
diopter in the K reading
How many meridians are measured in keratometry? - Accurate Answer✅✅2
meridians (usually 90° apart)
The average K reading is ____. - Accurate Answer✅✅43-44 diopters
Keratometry measures the____ of the anterior curvature of the cornea. - Accurate
Answer✅✅Central 3.3 mm
The diffusion of oxygen through a contact lens material is referred to as ____. -
Accurate Answer✅✅DK value
True or False: The application and evaluation of a diagnostic lens on the eye is the
best way to fit a contact lens - Accurate Answer✅✅True
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