I just had an eye exam and the Ophthalmologist did the pressure test without using the stream of air??
Question: Is it possible that he could determine that the pressure was OK just looking at the eye ball?
Answers: The air puff test is only one of the ways to check IOP (intra-ocular pressure) What he did was use the numbing drops and then touches your eye with an instrument that measures the IOP.
For people who do not like the air puff test, this is much better. I do not like the air puff test. I always wind up blinking and then they'd have to do it over and over again. It makes me very flinchy. This other way usually only needs to be done once per eye and is still very accurate.
Dilation drops are NOT given to check IOP. They are given so that the doctor can see into the anterior portion of the eye. It has nothing to do with IOP.
Did they dialate your eyes? That is usually how they do it.
I'm an optometrist and use Goldmann tonometry (the yellow drops with the blue light) all the time. I don't know where people get this idea that ophthalmologists are the only ones that do it. I almost never use the old air puff.
hi beautiful,
probable he knows better because he is specialist for that, other ways you can ask him, in that time may be you will learn one thing you didn't know before and i hope you will inform to us.
The puff of air is not as accurate as a technique called applanation tonometry.
The puff is still used by many optometrists and is only a screening technique.
Ophthalmologists (eye doctors trained in medicine and surgery) use the more accurate way called applanation tonometry. There will be a point during the exam when they put in a yellow colored drop and then use a blue light to look at you. The blue light is attached to a small probe that is able to measure the exact pressure of the eye. You wouldn't feel this because the yellow drop has a numbing agent in it.
Ophthalmologists measure the pressure in your eye directly by compressing it with a springed instrument that tells the pressure in the eye. An anesthetic drop is placed on the eye first. This is the most accurate test for eye pressure.
Answers: The air puff test is only one of the ways to check IOP (intra-ocular pressure) What he did was use the numbing drops and then touches your eye with an instrument that measures the IOP.
For people who do not like the air puff test, this is much better. I do not like the air puff test. I always wind up blinking and then they'd have to do it over and over again. It makes me very flinchy. This other way usually only needs to be done once per eye and is still very accurate.
Dilation drops are NOT given to check IOP. They are given so that the doctor can see into the anterior portion of the eye. It has nothing to do with IOP.
Did they dialate your eyes? That is usually how they do it.
I'm an optometrist and use Goldmann tonometry (the yellow drops with the blue light) all the time. I don't know where people get this idea that ophthalmologists are the only ones that do it. I almost never use the old air puff.
hi beautiful,
probable he knows better because he is specialist for that, other ways you can ask him, in that time may be you will learn one thing you didn't know before and i hope you will inform to us.
The puff of air is not as accurate as a technique called applanation tonometry.
The puff is still used by many optometrists and is only a screening technique.
Ophthalmologists (eye doctors trained in medicine and surgery) use the more accurate way called applanation tonometry. There will be a point during the exam when they put in a yellow colored drop and then use a blue light to look at you. The blue light is attached to a small probe that is able to measure the exact pressure of the eye. You wouldn't feel this because the yellow drop has a numbing agent in it.
Ophthalmologists measure the pressure in your eye directly by compressing it with a springed instrument that tells the pressure in the eye. An anesthetic drop is placed on the eye first. This is the most accurate test for eye pressure.
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