Ophthalmic 1
Medication used to moisten, and protect the eye, and prevent corneal drying.
What are lubricants?
Blockage of the aqueous humor drainage pathway results in this condition.
What is glaucoma?
Agents administered to speed clot breakdown.
What are thrombolytics?
Medication that should never be kept on the sterile back table in a syringe.
What is thrombin?
The body's most common mineral.
What is calcium?
Jelly like substances injected into the eye during certain procedures.
What are viscoelastic agents?
The vascular layer of the eye.
What is the choroid layer?
enzyme that assists in the conversion of fibrinogen to fibrin.
What is thrombin?
Topical hemostatic agent made from beeswax.
What is bone wax?
Structures that secrete aqueous humor.
What are the ciliary processes?
Injection of anesthetic above and below the orbit.
What is a peribulbar block?
Thromboplastin is formed during this stage of clot formation.
What is stage 1?
Adverse reactions to this medicine include hemorrhage and thrompocytopenia.
What is heparin?
Medications that keep the posterior chamber expanded, prevent injury to surrounding tissue, and protect the cornea.
What are viscoelastic agents?
Medication mixed with local anesthetic to increase diffusion.
What is vitrase?
drugs that promote, accelerate, or make possible blood coagulation.
What are coagulants?
Antagonist for heparin.