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Basic Patient Workup and Special Tests

$20.00

Categories: Examination and Testing, Ophthalmology

Description

This course is intended to train beginner and intermediate level technicians and front office staff in the steps necessary to complete a basic ophthalmic work up. This course will give a basic foundation to what the patient workup is like, what testing is done during a patient work up, and what different testing terminology means. This allows all ophthalmic staff to gain a solid foundation for what testing is needed for an ophthalmic exam.

The student will learn the following concepts from this course:

List the steps included in complete history taking including important points to touch on when taking background history on patients.
Be able to document a history
Describe how to elicit and document a complete chief complaint
List the steps to follow to perform a full work up on a patient
Describe how to evaluate pupils including how to document an APD
Describe how to perform and document confrontational visual fields
Describe how to perform and document version testing
List the steps for checking intraocular pressure by applanation
Identify the most commonly used dilation drops
Describe when to do a BAT
Identify what BAT results could mean
List the steps to BAT testing
Describe how PAM testing works
List the steps to do PAM testing
Identify what Stereo testing is
List the steps in Stereo testing
Document stereo testing results
Describe how to perform color testing with the Ishihara test plates
Document color vision testing done with Ishihara test plates
Describe how to perform the Worth 4 Dot test
Interpret results from the Worth 4 Dot test
Identify what a Tonopen is and what measurement it is used for
Identify the correct endpoint in taking manual
List the steps in appropriate order for taking manual

This course should take approximately 2 hour to complete.

This course has been approved by the AOA Commission on Paraoptometric Certification (CPC) for continuing education credit for use toward paraoptometric certification renewal.