Appendix C
CCOA Sub-Content Areas (cont.)
BASIC TONOMETRY
INSTRUMENT
MAINTENANCE
GENERAL MEDICAL
KNOWLEDGE
Applanation
♦ Principles
♦ Errors
♦ Cleaning and sterilizing
♦ Advantages/disadvantages
♦ Technique
Non-Contact Complications and Contraindications
Scleral Rigidity
♦ General concepts
♦ Methods of assessing scleral rigidity
Acuity Projectors
Ophthalmoscopes
♦ Direct
♦ Indirect
Retinoscopes
Lensometers
Perimeters
Tangent Screen
Phoropters
Factors Altering Intraocular Pressure
♦ Squeezing eyelids
♦ Heartbeat
♦ Breath holding
♦ Tight collar
♦ Body position
♦ Other
Slit Lamps
Ultrasound
Keratometers
Lenses
Tonometers
Muscle Light
Special Instruments (Equipment)
Surgical Instruments
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
♦ Fainting
♦ Cardiac Arrest
♦ Acute drug reaction
Anatomy
♦ Cardiovascular
♦ Respiratory
♦ Endocrine
♦ Nervous
♦ Ocular
Physiology
♦ Cardiovascular
♦ Respiratory
♦ Endocrine
♦ Nervous
♦ Ocular
Systemic Diseases
♦ Diabetes
♦ Hypertension
♦ Cancer
♦ Atherosclerosis
Systemic Diseases (cont.)
♦ Blood
♦ Infections
♦ Blood dyscrasia
♦ Infectious disease
Ocular Disease
♦ Refractive errors
♦ Infection
♦ Injury
♦ Red eye
♦ Presbyopia
♦ Other common disorders
Ocular Emergencies
♦ First aid
♦ Management in the absence of the physician
Metric Conversions
Fundamentals of Microbial Control
♦ Sanitation
♦ Disinfection
♦ Sterilization
♦ Contamination
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1.
Punctal occlusion
2.
Drainage of topical drops from the eye and their
systemic absorption can be prevented
3.
by ____ ____?
Teal
2.
4.
What medications are used as topical anesthetics?
Antibiotics, antivirals, and antifungals
3.
What is the color of bottle caps of prostaglandins?
5.
Itching, rash, difficulty breathing, weak
or
rapid pulse
What are the classifications of the three large groups
of anti-infective agents?
1.
4.
5.
Proparacaine or tetracaine
A true allergic reaction can involve what symptoms?
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