All About Eyes
Your school age patient has redness and crusting exudate on the lids and corners of each eye. This is a priority teaching topic (action).
Teach the patient and family how to prevent spread
Hand hygiene
Which type of medication is contraindicated for a patient diagnosed with glaucoma?
Anticholinergics
A salt restricted diet, and prescribed antihistamines and vasodilators help with this disease of the ears.
Meniere Disease
A family history of this disease can cause problems with vision.
Diabetes
This is used by the doctor to culture purulent drainage from the ear
culture swab kit
Recommending a patient with keratitis to wear sunglasses indoors and outdoors will help with this painful side effect.
photophobia
What is a priority teaching topic for a patient that presents with vertigo, tinnitus, and sensorineural hearing loss?
Instruct not to turn the head quickly
A fluorescein angiography finds leakage or damage to the blood vessels of this part of the eye.
Retina
This implanted device is contraindicated for an electronystagmogram.
A pacemaker
Pneumatic retinopexy is a procedure where the patient must recline for this many hours.
16
The fovea centralis contains this.
cones
Speaking in a lower tone of voice helps a patient with this disease hear better.
presbycusis
This is the patient's eyesight if he must be at 60 feet to see what someone with normal vision can see at 20 feet.
20/60
These two parts of the ear is where impulses for hearing come from.
inner and middle
Flashing lights, loss of peripheral vision and loss of acuity in the affected eye are all signs of this eye disorder.
detached retina
Sneezing with your mouth open is important after having this type of surgery.
stapedectomy
This is a technique where you place the index finger on the corner of the eye and apply pressure against the nose bone.
punctual occlusion
An otoscopic exam visualizes this part of the ear.
tympanic membrane
This is used to measure intraocular pressure.
tonometer
This eye disorder causes loss of central vision and only peripheral vision remains.
Macular Degeneration
This is an abscess caused by hair follicles in the ear
carbuncle
This is when a patient's left pupil constricts when a light is shown in the right eye.
Consensual response
The Rinne and Weber tests use this instrument to check for hearing.
tuning fork