Color-blind procedure-What is vision acuity

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OPHTHALOMOGY:

SCENARIO:

34-year-old female came into the clinic today for a scheduled DOT PE. It is required that all DOT PE's are to have a color-blind test, vision testing, and an audiogram successfully completed.

1. What is a DOT PE? Who would need a DOT PE?

COLOR BLIND TESTING

2. What is the medical word for the color-blind procedure? Why would this procedure be completed? How would you explain this procedure? What may be found in the plates? What is the maximum distance that a patient needs to be to complete this procedure? How many wrong can a patient get during this procedure?

3. Are children being tested at an early age? If so, when are they being tested? Why are they being tested?

4. What colors are more common in men? What colors affects men and woman equally? Who generally can pass down the color-blind trait? Be specific in your answer.

VISION TESTING

5. What is vision acuity? What is a Snellen chart? There are several vision acuity tests that are used. Describe what is available. Vision testing is started at the age of 3, what types of tests are available to children?

Describe what the patient would need to do for this procedure. Include in your answer the "do not do" while completing this procedure. What type of instrument(s) would need to be used for this procedure?

6. If the patient wears glasses, do they need to wear glasses during this procedure? What would you document if the patient does wear glasses? What if the patient forgot their glasses? What would you document?

7. EXTRA CREDIT: Your patient states before you completed the vision exam, that she/he had had vision laser surgery. Where should this information be charted at?

8. On the left side of the vision test are numbers in a fraction format. On the right side of the vision test is one large number. Describe what the fraction format means (example: 20/100)? What does the number on the right mean? What is normal vision?

9. What is OD, OS, OU? As the Medical Assistant, you have explained the procedure and now the patient is starting the procedure. What are the steps? How many wrong can a patient get per line? What happens if the patient is not successful on this exam? How would you document the completed Snellen exam information in the chart? Can you use medical abbreviations in your documentation in the chart? Why or why not?

OTOLARYNGOLOGY

AUDIOGRAMS

10. What is the difference between decibels and frequency in an audiogram? What is the abbreviation for decibel and frequency?

11. Headphones have two different colors. What are the colors and what color goes with what ear?

12. What ear should you always start with? What decibel and frequency should you start with? When documenting the right ear on the audiogram sheet, you should use what color pen and what shape? When documenting the left ear on the audiogram sheet, you should use what color pen and what shape?

13. EXTRA CREDIT: What would you document on the audiogram sheet if the patient could not hear any tones?

14. Audiograms are started at the age of 3. What could a medical assistant do to keep a young patient's interest?

Tympanogram

15. Why would a medical provider order a tympanogram? What could the tympanogram tell the provider after reviewing the results?

Ear Lavage

16. Could you complete a Tympanic temperature on someone who has a chief complaint of "loss of hearing" or "blocked ear"? Why or why not?

17. There are several reasons why a patient would a need an ear lavage? Name two.

18. As a medical assistant, I would place a chux pad on the shoulder of the ear that I needed to clean, making sure it was tucked into their shirt. Why would you need to have a chux pad?

19. Sometimes, patients may feel vasovagal symptoms, what position would you want to place the patient in right away? Why? What type of vital signs would you want to complete on this patient? Why?

20. If you are completing an ear lavage on a 4-year-old patient, how would you pull back the year? Someone who is younger than 3? (There are two answers for this age group- list both)

21. What is AD, AS, AU?

22. What instrument would you use to view into an eye? What instrument would you use to view into an ear?

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