Can you determine Rx of a deceased person?

[beagleman]

Oh, I know, you're the optician/mortician....

[NCspecs]

Yes you can (do you even need a license?). My doc says he used to practice static refractions on excised cows eyes.

Did your Dr. see many myopic cows? That would be one hell of a bridge on a pair of bovine spectacles......

[Geirskogul]

One awesome bridge. I'd love to be the designer for something like that - think of the possibilities!

[Striderswife]

This is the most original thread I've seen in a long time. Then again, I've been MIA since Thanksgiving. Anyway, great question! I'm gonna see what my doc thinks. :)

[drk]

I'm no mortician, but I believe the corneas and probably the lenses will become cloudy very soon after death, so...no.

The cornea naturally will swell unless the endothelial pumps function.

I believe with corneal transplants they have to move quickly. A lot of ophthalmology residents make extra cash working for eye banks.

[Uncle Fester]

I'm no mortician, but I believe the corneas and probably the lenses will become cloudy very soon after death, so...no.

The cornea naturally will swell unless the endothelial pumps function.

I believe with corneal transplants they have to move quickly. A lot of ophthalmology residents make extra cash working for eye banks.

Who said it had to be accurate?

Ca ching!!

New thread?
Inquiring minds want to know is it legal for an optician to write the rx? ;)

[Uncle Fester]

A lot of ophthalmology residents make extra cash working for eye banks.

:finger:

[uncut]

Who said it had to be accurate?

Ca ching!!

New thread?
Inquiring minds want to know is it legal for an optician to write the rx? ;)

Who's going to object, the bovine, steer, or bull optometric society?

[sharpstick777]

It sounds like Luxottica is trying to move into a new market.

I don't think there is any way to get an ACCURATE refraction. Soft tissue would begin to change almost immediately after death, the total loss of vascular pressure alone would change the shape of the eye immediately, even before clouding set in.

[chip anderson]

Good start would be to look at the glasses he was wearing when he died.
Actually a sonogram as used in pre-catarct surgery should be as accurate as it is on a living person.

[igirl]

It sounds like Luxottica is trying to move into a new market.

Too Funny!

[hcjilson]

I wish I had seen this thread earlier so I could have saved you a lot of time, effort and research.
The Rx of the deceased is:

OU - 6.00 Axis 180:bbg:

[NCspecs]

Good start would be to look at the glasses he was wearing when he died.

Believe it or not I actually DID fit a pair of glasses for a corpse. It was one of the wierdest things I've ever done in Optical. Given, it was for asthetic reasons, but still....

[DragonLensmanWV]

Yeah, I had to do that once. Also had to neutralize a mangled, bloody pair of glasses to verify that they belonged to the man who had gotten run over and killed by a car.

[uncut]

I wish I had seen this thread earlier so I could have saved you a lot of time, effort and research.
The Rx of the deceased is:

OU - 6.00 Axis 180:bbg:

Nice calculation, HC........:p!

[DragonLensmanWV]

Harry, does that include POW measurements?:bbg::bbg:

[NCspecs]

Yeah, I had to do that once. Also had to neutralize a mangled, bloody pair of glasses to verify that they belonged to the man who had gotten run over and killed by a car.

Yikes! Was that because there was a lawsuit? My pt had been killed in a hunting accident. At first,I had no idea what was going on. His sister came in asking for a specific type of frame in a certain color so she could buy glasses for her brother. When I tried to gently suggest I needed to fit the pt in person she started to sob and told me what the situation really was. We ended up giving her a free frame with plano lenses because we were a small, farm town office and the story just broke our hearts. He had lost the glasses during the accident and she wanted him to look the way he always did when they had the viewing. :(

[FVCCHRIS]

Is it possible to determine a deceased person's eye prescription?
Would an autorefractor work in this case?

1.) No
2.) No

You people are amazing. We all suffer from the same affliction. Insatiable curiosity regarding weirdness.

[engnenk]

Just wondering because my doctor is a huge CSI fan, and this could make an interesting episode.
My doctor she doesn't know the answer.
Sounds like it is not possible?

William Petersen (guy who played Grissom) lives here in Chicago. I'll track him down and ask.

[BobV]

Drk-I am a former mortician turned optician and yes, the eyes will start to cloud over within a couple of hours.

[chip anderson]

Note: A sonogram would still work with cloudy corneas, vitreous, aqueous, or lens.