All About Pupils

This course is intended for training beginner, intermediate, and advanced level technicians who are learning more about pupil function and is presented online through Eye-Courses.com. The course will explain the basics of pupil function including the pupil nerve pathways from the eye to the brain and back. This will allow for in-depth training for those technicians wanting in-depth material on pupils.

This course teaches the following:

• List the pupil’s functions
• Identify the muscles which control pupil size
• Describe the 3 responses which involve the pupil
• Define afferent and efferent pathways in relation to the pupil
• Trace the sympathetic light pathway from the brain to the pupil dilator
• Trace the parasympathetic light pathway from the eye to the brain and back to the iris
• Identify how to test and document pupil function
• Explain what an APD looks
• List and identify pupil dysfunctions
• Describe how to test for a Horner’s syndrome

This course should take approximately 1 hour to complete.

This course is pending approval from the AOA Commission on Paraoptometric Certification (CPC) for continuing education credit for use toward paraoptometric certification renewal.