Competency: 3

Details

Select suitable technology for each type of investigation, choosing and adapting the appropriate diagnostic technique, patient position and equipment settings for each patient.

Considerations

• Appropriate imaging modality with clinical/systemic status, age, ability and co-operation
• Methods of quantitative echography and ultrasound biomicroscopy
• Applications and techniques of ultrasonography of the eye and orbit, including topographic examination of the globe and kinetic echograph
• The application of ‘special examination techniques’ that include topographic, kinetic and quantitative echography
• The principles of high-frequency ultrasound and its application in ophthalmic diagnosis
• The principle of ophthalmic ‘standardised echography’, including the unique features of standardised A-scan, and the principle of ‘echographic tissue diagnoses
• Clinical indications for, contraindications to and patient benefit from investigations
• Medication used to treat ophthalmic symptoms and conditions

Relevant learning outcomes