At The Front Desk
Patients should bring an updated list of these, including eye drops, to help us keep their health information accurate.
What are medications?
What is visual acuity?
These parts of a frame extend back along the sides of the head and over the ears.
What are the temples?
Before touching contact lenses, patients should do these two things to their hands.
What are washing and drying them thoroughly?
A patient has a painful, photophobic red eye. Slit-lamp examination reveals anterior chamber cells and flare. This inflammatory diagnosis best fits those findings.
What is anterior uveitis? (or iritis)
When a patient wants an earlier appointment, this list allows us to contact them if an opening becomes available.
What is the schedule waitlist?
This part of the exam uses different lens choices to help determine a glasses prescription.
What is a refraction?
This lens treatment reduces reflections from the lens surfaces.
What is anti-glare coating?
Even if it looks clean, this household liquid should never be used to rinse or store contact lenses.
What is water?
During the swinging flashlight test, both pupils dilate relatively when the light moves from the unaffected eye to the affected eye.
What is a relative afferent pupillary defect? (RAPD)
A patient calls requesting an appointment for an eye concern. Before offering a routine opening, this process helps determine how urgently they need care.
What is triage?
This test maps how well a person sees in different areas, including their peripheral or side vision.
What is a visual field test?
For a lined bifocal, these two height measurements locate different things: one positions the top of the reading segment, while the other positions the optical center of the distance lens. Name both.
What are segment height and optical center height?
Unlike a spherical contact lens, this lens design corrects astigmatism and must maintain a specific orientation on the eye.
What is a toric contact lens?
A branching corneal epithelial ulcer with terminal bulbs that stains with fluorescein is characteristic of this viral infection.
What is herpes simplex epithelial keratitis?
An existing patient calls and needs to schedule their yearly exam, and wants to try contacts for the first time. They should be scheduled for this appointment type.
What is a FCX with ICD?
During refraction, this technique uses added plus power to blur distance vision and encourage accommodation to relax.
What is fogging?
Viewed from the side, this frame angle brings the bottom of the lenses closer to the cheeks than the top.
What is pantoscopic tilt?
When ordering a toric contact lens, these two prescription values are needed in addition to sphere power to specify the astigmatism correction.
What are cylinder power and axis?
Latanoprost lowers intraocular pressure primarily by increasing aqueous drainage through this outflow pathway.
What is the uveoscleral pathway?
A patient has two insurance plans. This process determines which plan pays first and how the secondary plan may contribute.
What is coordination of benefits (COB)
Written in plus-cylinder form, the prescription -2.00-1.00X180 becomes this.
What is -3.00+1.00X090?
Using Prentice’s rule, looking 5 mm away from the optical center of a +4.00 D spherical lens produces this amount of prism.
What are 2 prism diopters?
A toric trial lens has an axis of 090. After settling, its six-o’clock orientation mark consistently sits 10 degrees to the examiner’s left. Using LARS, this is the compensated axis to order.
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What is 100 degrees?
A 40-year-old patient taking corticosteroids develops central distortion in one eye. OCT shows a dome-shaped serous detachment of the neurosensory retina with subretinal fluid and a thickened choroid. This is the most likely diagnosis.
What is central serous chorioretinopathy?