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- Using a red hatpin (or alternatively, a cotton bud stained with fluorescein/pen with a red base) start by identifying and assessing the patient’s blind spot in comparison to the size of your own. The red hatpin needs to be positioned at an equal distance between you and the patient for this to work.
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May 7, 2020 · Using a red hatpin (or alternatively, a cotton bud stained with fluorescein/pen with a red base) start by identifying and assessing the patient’s blind spot in comparison to the size of your own. The red hatpin needs to be positioned at an equal distance between you and the patient for this to work. 6.
- Dr Lewis Potter
You should do the same and focus your gaze on the patient’s face. Using a red hatpin (or alternatively, a cotton bud stained with fluorescein/pen with a red base) start by identifying and assessing the patient’s blind spot in comparison to the size of your own.
Aug 28, 2013 · Using a red hatpin (or alternatively, a cotton bud stained with fluorescein/pen with a red base) start by identifying and assessing the patient’s blind spot in comparison to the size of your own. The red hatpin needs to be positioned at an equal distance between you and the patient for this to work.
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Jan 1, 2018 · If appropriate, map out the patient's blind spot: the patient and examiner are seated as for the visual field test; both close one opposite, non-tested eye
May 31, 2015 · Imagine you are assessing a patient with visual difficulties or optic disc swelling. After a bedside visual field examination with waggling fingers and even a red hatpin, you decide that there is an abnor-mality. After requesting quantified visual field tests, the patient returns with a black and white printout with numbers
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- Sui H Wong, Gordon T Plant
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Ask the patient to focus on a red hat pin presented directly in front of their eye. Move a hat pin of a different colour (or white cotton swab) temporally until they lose sight of it. Ensure these are midway between yourself and the patient so that you are checking your blind spot and comparing it to theirs at the same time
The blind spot indicates the location of the optic nerve head—an area with no photoreceptors—in the temporal part of the visual field. Anything obstructing the travel of light towards the retina may affect the field tests, for example, lens opacity (cataract), ptosis (if not taped away from the pupil) or the rim of a correcting lens (test ...
