instrution of using retinascope!!!!!!!!!!!!

[cnet_baby]

can somebody provide instrution of using retinascope!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Chris Ryser]

can somebody provide instrution of using retinascope!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

QUESTION.................................

Why do you want to have instructions on above instrument whyle you still dont know the basics of the optical trade ??????

[William Stacy O.D.]

can somebody provide instrution of using retinascope!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Go to optometry school.

(In California, it would be illegal for you to use one without a license)

[Aarlan]

Anyone know how to use this pesky phakoemulsifier? I figured I'd do some cataract extraction in my spare time...:hammer:

AA

[drk]

Can anyone give me a quick overview as to how to do refractive surgery? Please use 50 words or less! Thanks in advance!

[roxysmom]

Can anyone give me a quick overview as to how to do refractive surgery? Please use 50 words or less! Thanks in advance!

drk:
As a nurse in neonatal intensive care-maybe I can find a short synopsis on the WWW for you-would that help? I have no idea what a retinascope is-but I do have experience with premature babies
do you suppose I could change professions and become an optometrist next week? Is that enough time to learn the trade?:p

[drk]

:) ;) Ha!

[roxysmom]

:) ;) Ha!

LOL!!

[fjpod]

You folks are brutal! Don't blame you though.

[QDO1]

a charged up battery is a good start

[chip anderson]

Be nice to the guy, there are lots of books, tapes, and courses on retinoskopy, or skiaskopy to use the correct term. Some of these are called by other terms to avoid arousing the ire of various optometry associations, but they are out there.

Contact the CLSA, or the OAA, AOA or even look for a book on Ebay, or through one of the optometric, opthalmological, or opticianry, web sites.

And it is perfectly legal to practice on a schematic eye or a non-human animal.

Jack Copeland used to practice on, dogs, cats, owls, and other critters.

Chip

[rbaker]

So did Jack Copeland.

[Ed_Optician]

I learned as part of my refraction courses. First practicing on a schematic eye and later paired up withanother student. If I am not mistaken it is outlined in g Primary Care Optometry
Get a Welch Allyn streak unit when you get the handle get the onewith the charger built into the handle and the extention collar so you can use 2 C cells in a pinch

Ed

[Graduate]

I hope this links will help you:

http://www.eyetec.net/group2/M6START.htm

or go to www.eyetec.net for many beautiful courses

[Aarlan]

Anyone know how to use this pesky phakoemulsifier? I figured I'd do some cataract extraction in my spare time...:hammer:

AA

Sorry Cnet...That was a bit harsh as I look back on it:o ...The website Graduate put up was very informative.

AA

[medicalretina]

can somebody provide instrution of using
retinascope!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

retinascopy, is a very difficult skill to master but is not impossible to learn.
if you really want to learn, i'll send you my own intstructions.
you're really going to have to practice a lot to really become efficient at it.
if it's possible for you, try to find yourself a welch allyn retinascope.
this scope is one of the best ones to use.

i teach retinoscopy at sanjacinto college in pasadena, tx. and my students have learned to become very efficient at it within 3 months.

with retinoscopy you can refract animals, babies, young children and non-responsive people.

best of suerte to you.

gil

[medicalretina]

Go to optometry school.

(In California, it would be illegal for you to use one without a license)

william,

i know you're nicer than that.
in texas it is illegal to refract without a license but i refract and give out my rx's under my md's wing.

it never hurts to learn a new skill

gil

[Chris Ryser]

.
in texas it is illegal to refract without a license but i refract and give out my rx's under my md's wing.

Therefore your job, income and techniques used doing it, are illegal .............which means your MD is putting his signature on a Rx form that has been produced by a non licensed person and is against the law.

So...................how come this is tolerated by the optical retail community?

[William Stacy O.D.]

william,

i know you're nicer than that.
in texas it is illegal to refract without a license but i refract and give out my rx's under my md's wing.

it never hurts to learn a new skill

gil

Sorry and yes, even though it's illegal in many places, I suppose if the doc is no good at it it would be better for the public if the doc had some help from anyone who can do it. And who knows, if the person likes it enough, and has a knack for it, they might just go get licensed...

[Dannyboy]

You can certainly earn a degree in Ophthalmic technology and practice all the retinoscopy that you want. Here are a few of the schools. They have associates, bachelors and recently they got a master level program. I guess if it was illegal they would not offer such careers dont you think so...I wonder if the education is better there than ..oh well do not wanna be fried on this one again...


http://www.jcahpo.org/newsite/COAOMPtechprograms.HTML


Dannyboy:o

[cnet_baby]

retinascopy, is a very difficult skill to master but is not impossible to learn.
if you really want to learn, i'll send you my own intstructions.
you're really going to have to practice a lot to really become efficient at it.
if it's possible for you, try to find yourself a welch allyn retinascope.
this scope is one of the best ones to use.

i teach retinoscopy at sanjacinto college in pasadena, tx. and my students have learned to become very efficient at it within 3 months.

with retinoscopy you can refract animals, babies, young children and non-responsive people.

best of suerte to you.

gil

thanks a lot, can u send the instruction for me. i just want to learn only and how it work , and dont worry i won't do something which is illegal.

[cnet_baby]

I hope this links will help you:

http://www.eyetec.net/group2/M6START.htm

or go to www.eyetec.net for many beautiful courses

Graduate,

thanks a lot to show me the address , if not i just like the bird to searching somewhere to stop

[chip anderson]

Chris: I hate to disagree with my learned collegue but almost everywhere in the states a licensed M.D. may deligate almost anything to a subordiante but becomes totaly liable for the subordinates actions. I have heard of surgery being deligated, and in some parts of the world there is an ocupation called a surgical technician who performs surgery (yes, even catarac surgery.) And of course we all know there are many things one can do in a physician or university setting that can be done that are not allowed in independent practice. Techs, screen Rx, visual fields, opthalmic pressures, change wound dressings and countless other duties far more liabilitous than retinsocopy (skiaskopy).


Chip

[acuitis]

I have worked as an ophthalmic tech for 16 years and in four different states. Every MD has their tech refract for them...their time is too valuable to do it themselves. I doubt something that is taught to techs, tested to become certified and practiced by them throughout the US is illegal...if so every Opthalmologist would at the very least have their medical license revoked...which isn't the case. I am sure everyone of them can do it, as most of them do it themselves for the 3 years they are a resident...when they start to practice as a staff doctor they start to have the techs do it for them.

It wouldn't be illegal to streak someone or refract them for practice anyway...you just wouldn't be able to write them an RX.

[Judy Canty]

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