Clinical Optometry

4 Most Common Retinal Hemes You’ll Find: Location and Etiology

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Retinal hemorrhages are often hallmarks of many ocular and/or systemic diseases. Thus, finding them in asymptomatic patients during comprehensive eye exams may require further evaluation to determine the principle cause. It is crucial to identify and classify various types of hemorrhages because optometric management is influenced by the underlying etiology. The following are the most …

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Optometry Clinical Photo Database – by OptometryStudents.com

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Tuesday, September 17th 2013 OptometryStudents.com (OS) and its team of 25 optometry and pre-optometry students has officially launched the “Optometry Clinical Photo Database” aka OptometryCPD. The project is lead by the OS Director of Clinical Photography, Apoorva Jinka of SUNY College of Optometry. OptometryCPD seeks to be the top crowd-sourced clinical photo database, with contributions from students, optometrists, and optometry …

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Quick Facts and Management of Charles Bonnet Syndrome

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Hallucination vs. Illusion: Hallucination is sensory perception of things that are not there and persist with eye closure. Illusion is misperception of viewed objects. What is Charles Bonnet Syndrome (CBS)? CBS is classified under hallucination and may occur in patients with visual acuity loss, visual field loss or reduced contrast sensitivity (1, 2). It may …

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Optometry Student to Successful Optometrist: Communication Part 1 of 3

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In April I had the opportunity of interviewing Dr. Chad Fleming OD, FAAO for OptometryStudents.com. Dr. Fleming is the Business and Career Coach for AOA Excel, so he was a great interview when it comes to talking about what things students need to do in order to get a good job and excel at that …

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A Summary of AREDS 1 and AREDS 2

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We’ve been waiting for a while now for the other shoe to drop about exactly how nutritional supplementation affects the progression of non-exudative age-related macular degeneration. Back in 2001, the original National Eye Institute’s Age-Related Eye Disease Study (AREDS) gave us some answers while also raising even more questions. The study showed that some vitamin …

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Ocular Diagnosis I Always Have to Google

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The optometry student’s brain is a funny thing. Sometimes, I only need to hear something once, and it is ingrained in me forever. More often than not, however, I find myself sheepishly looking over my shoulder during the middle of lecture as I punch the same things into Google over and over again. The professor …

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How to Effectively Communicate Diagnoses to Patients: In Layman’s Terms

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“Unless you’ve got an optical engineer in your exam chair, reciting names of Zernike polynomials as possible explanations for a patient’s night-time blur is gonna get you nowhere.” After several years of practice and several thousand patients, you’ll definitely get the hang of how to explain things in an efficient manner so that your patients …

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