Maharashtra HSC Ophthalmic Technician (Vocational) case studies
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The Maharashtra HSC Vocational Ophthalmic Technician course is a higher secondary vocational stream offered under the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education. It prepares students to work as assistants in eye clinics, hospital ophthalmology departments, optical outlets and community eye-care programmes - taking case history, measuring visual acuity, assisting with refraction and minor procedures, handling and maintaining instruments, sterilising equipment, and keeping patient records. The Maharashtra HSC Ophthalmic Technician (Vocational) case studies are 5 cases and about 4,889 words.
1Dilating a hyperopic patient with a history of brow pain at a cataract camp
A 62-year-old woman attends a district eye camp for cataract assessment. Her refraction is +4.25 DS in both eyes and the anterior chamber is visibly shallow on oblique torch examination.
910 words, about 5 min2Triage of six patients in a four-hour village screening camp
Your mobile unit sets up a free screening camp in a village hall. 280 people are registered, one ophthalmologist is available for four hours, and the only equipment is two torches, a 3-metre Snellen chart, a hand-held magnifier and a trial set.
1,073 words, about 5 min3A high myope who has already bought −11.00 D soft lenses online
A 24-year-old woman with spectacle refraction −11.00 DS in both eyes, worn at a 12 mm vertex distance, wants contact lenses for her wedding in ten days. Keratometry reads 7.55 mm and 7.70 mm in each eye.
931 words, about 5 min4Applanation tonometry on a watery red eye in a busy lane
A 38-year-old man walks into the OPD lane with a two-day history of a red, watery right eye, gritty sensation and a tender node in front of the ear. He had a cold last week, and his son and two neighbours have had "pink eye".
974 words, about 5 min5Visual acuity in a shy four-year-old in a 2.8-metre room
The vision room in your polyclinic is 2.8 m long. A 4-year-old boy is brought by his mother because his anganwadi teacher noticed he holds pictures very close and sits at the front.
1,001 words, about 5 min