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- farsightedness MANAGEMENT:
- focuses light at the back of the retina a. Assess how visual impairment can affect normal
- treatment: convex lens functioning
b. Provide emotional support for recent visual
III. ASTIGMATISM impairment
c. Orient to the environment
d. Sight guide technique (e.g. contact and grasp,
alternative grasp, stance, changing sides)
CATARACTS
- Is an opacity or cloudiness of the normally
transparent crystalline lens
- Lens protein dries out and forms crystals due
- unequal curvature of the cornea to density of the lens
Diagnostic Examinations:
NCM 104N | PERCEPTION AND COORDINATION
✓ Standard Ophthalmic Exam
✓ Visual Acuity Test
✓ Eye movement and peripheral vision
✓ Color blindness
✓ Pupil dilation
✓ Tonometry
✓ Slit-lamp exam
Medical/Surgical Management:
1. EXTRACAPSULAR CATARACT EXTRACTION
(ECCE)
- the lens is lifted out without removing the lens
capsule
- may be performed with: manual expression,
phacoemulsification
- The lens is broken up by ultrasonic
vibration and extracted through aspiration