This course is intended for beginning and intermediate levels. This course covers basic to intermediate level information regarding astigmatism and is presented online through Eye-Courses.com.
After completing this section, the student should be able to do the following:
- Define corneal astigmatism
- Define lenticular astigmatism
- Differentiate between regular and irregular astigmatism
- Identify with the rule astigmatism refractive errors
- Identify against the rule astigmatism refractive errors
- Define simple myopic astigmatism
- Define simple hyperopic astigmatism
- Define compound myopic astigmatism
- Define compound hyperopic astigmatism
- Define mixed astigmatism
- List symptoms of astigmatism
- Identify causes of astigmatism
- Describe how the following instruments aide in detecting astigmatism: keratoscope, keratometer, corneal topographer, retinoscopy, Refractometry
- Identify with the rule astigmatism on corneal topography imaging
- Identify against the rule astigmatism on corneal topography imaging
- Describe what a Placido disk is and how it is used to detect and measure astigmatism
- List treatments for corneal astigmatism
- List treatments for lenticular astigmatism
- Identify possible complications of untreated astigmatism
This course should take approximately 1 hour to complete
This course has been approved by the AOA Commission on Paraoptometric Certification (CPC) for continuing education credit for use toward paraoptometric certification renewal.
