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Università degli Studi di Parma Università degli Studi di Parma
Degree course in
Orthoptic and ophtalmologic assistance
Università degli Studi di Parma
Department of Medicine and Surgery

APPLIED MEDICAL TECHNICAL SCIENCES
cod. 1009254

Academic year 2022/23
3° year of course - First semester
Professor
- Luca LUDERGNANI
Academic discipline
Scienze tecniche mediche applicate (MED/50)
Field
Attività formative affini o integrative
Type of training activity
Related/supplementary
7 hours
of face-to-face activities
1 credits
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course unit
in ITALIAN
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Learning objectives

-Have the theoretical and practical basis for clinically assessing the visually impaired person
-Be able to develop a rehabilitation pathway for the visually impaired person

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

-Hypovision: definition and classification

-Analysis of the main methods used to assess visual residual in the visually impaired patient:
Distance vision, how to measure a.v.
Near vision, how to measure a.v.
Objective and subjective refraction
Study of contrast sensitivity and glare phenomena
Acquired alterations of the color sense in low vision
Examination of the visual field in the low vision patient
Microperimetry in the low vision patient

-How to improve vision in the low vision patient
Types of magnification, tools and ways to achieve magnification: optical systems
Types of magnification, tools and ways to achieve magnification: electronic systems
Special non-optical aids
Cold light, warm light, Led light: effects on reading
Filtering and photoselective lenses for eye diseases.

-How the visually impaired person sees
Alteration of the reading mechanism in the visually impaired patient

-Sight rehabilitation in the visually impaired patient
The expectations of the visually impaired patient
the multidisciplinary approach
Example of Training.

-Tariff nomenclator (what it is, how it is made, how to interpret it)

-Practical evidence

Full programme

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Bibliography

-Quaderni di oftalmologia, La riabilitazione visiva (SOI Editore 2014)
-Vizi di refrazione (G.P. Paliaga, Minerva Medica)

Teaching methods

Lectures and practices. The student will attend the orthotic center of the UOC Ophthalmology of the University Hospital of Parma, where, through activities with tutors, will be addressed and discussed clinical cases. Due to the pandemic, lessons could also take place remotely (in synchronous/asynchronous mode) using Microsoft Teams.

Assessment methods and criteria

Examination modalities of the integrated course

Other information

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