Angie Shared "Eye" - 15 Picmonics
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Eye
Detached Retina
- Assessment
- Flashes of Light
- Floaters
- Curtain Like Shadow
- Interventions
- Eye Patch
- Bed Rest
- Surgical Emergency
- Considerations
- No Vigorous Activity
2 mins
Cataract
- Mechanism
- Age-related
- Assessment
- No Pain
- Cloudy Opaque Lens
- Decreased Visual Acuity
- Occurs Gradually
- Treatment
- Surgery
1 min
Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD)
- Mechanism
- Dry (nonexudative)
- Wet (exudative)
- Signs and Symptoms
- Scotomas
- Blurred, Darkened Vision
- Loss of Central Vision
- Distortion of Vision
- Considerations
- Drug Therapy
- Surgery
- Low-vision Assistive Devices
2 mins
Eye
- Characteristics
- Sclera
- Cornea
- Iris
- Lens
- Ciliary Muscles
- Optic Nerve
- Rods
- Cones
- Retina
1 min
Visual Field Defects - Anatomy Overview
- Optic Nerve
- Vision Loss in One Eye
- Optic Chiasm
- Bitemporal Hemianopia - Both Eyes Outside Vision Loss
- Optic Tract
- Homonymous Hemianopia - Both Eyes Same Side
- Dorsal Optic Radiation
- Lower Quadrantic Vision Loss
- Meyer's Loop
- Upper Quadrantic Vision Loss
2 mins
Closed-Angle Glaucoma
- Primary
- Lens causes pupillary obstruction
- Aqueous humor builds behind iris
- Iris bends forward, obstructing trabecular mesh
- Secondary
- Hypoxia Causes Neovascular Proliferation
- Contraction and obstruction of trabecular mesh
- Chronic disease (Crone)
- Asymptomatic
- Acute Disease
- Eye pain and blindness
- Rock-hard eye
- Headache
- Emergency
- Epinephrine contraindicated
2 mins
Systemic Effects of Beta-Blockers
- Respiratory
- Bronchoconstriction
- Metabolic
- Decreased Insulin
- Decreased Glycolysis and Lipolysis
- Eye
- Reduces Intraocular Pressure
1 min
Visual Field Defects - Homonymous Hemianopia
- Visual Field Abnormality
- Homonymous Hemianopia
- Vision Loss - Both Eyes Same Side
- Location of Lesion
- Optic Tract
- Parietal Lobe
1 min
Visual Field Defects - Right Anopia
- Visual Field Abnormality
- Right Anopia
- Complete Vision Loss in 1 Eye
- Location of Lesion
- Right Optic Nerve
- Causes
- Retinoblastoma
- Gliomas
41 secs
Visual Field Defects - Left Hemianopia with Macular Sparing
- Visual Field Abnormality
- Left Hemianopia with Macular Sparing
- Vision Loss - Same Side in Both Eyes
- Center Spared
- Location of Lesion
- Occipital Lobe
- Causes
- Posterior Cerebral Artery (PCA) Infarct
1 min
Vitamin A (Retinol) Function and Deficiency
- Mechanism
- Retinol
- Constituent of Visual Pigments
- Differentiation of Epithelial Cells into Specialized Tissue
- Signs and Symptoms
- Night Blindness
- Dry Skin
- Considerations
- Used to Treat Measles
- Antioxidant
2 mins
Chlamydia trachomatis
- Characteristics
- A to C
- Trachoma
- Follicular Conjunctivitis
- Blindness
- Africa
- L1 to 3
- Lymphogranuloma venereum
- Buboes
- Genital Ulcer
- D to K
- Urethritis and PID
- Neonatal Pneumonia
- Staccato Cough
- Neonatal Conjunctivitis
2 mins
Visual Field Defects - Left Lower Quadrantic Anopia
- Visual Field Abnormality
- Left Lower Quadrantic Anopia
- Pie on the Floor
- Location of Lesion
- Dorsal Optic Radiation
- Parietal Lobe
- Causes
- Middle Cerebral Artery (MCA) Infarct
1 min
Visual Field Defects - Left Upper Quadrantic Anopia
- Visual Field Abnormality
- Left Upper Quadrantic Anopia
- Pie in the Sky
- Location of Lesion
- Meyer's Loop
- Right Temporal Lobe
- Cause
- Middle Cerebral Artery (MCA) Infarct
1 min
Open-Angle Glaucoma
- Humor Has Access to Trabecular Meshwork
- Presentation
- Painless
- African American
- Elderly
- Positive Family History
- Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma
- Most Common Form of Glaucoma
- Unknown Mechanism
- Secondary Open-Angle Glaucoma
- Blocked Trabecular Meshwork (With Open-Angle)
- WBCs
- Red Blood Cells (RBC)
- Retinal Products
2 mins
