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COURSE OF STUDIES: Eye Optics

Course of lectures: Contact lenses II

Dr. Hrvoje Raguž / Dr. Sanja Njirić

Semester:

Lectures + practicums:

Total:

ECTS points:

5.

2

3

75

7

Objective of course of lectures: Teach students how to handle, apply and take out contact lenses, to carry our previous measurements necessary for fitting of contaxct lenses, how to work with rent lamps, refraction through contact lense in the eye.

Content of course of lectures:

1.     Maintenance of lenses and regular control of lense users.

2.     Complications in lense fitting.

3.     Psychological complications.

4.     Anatomic physiological complications.

5.     Complications due to contact lenses: deposits, change in lense parameters, complications with soft lenses, contact lenses and medicaments, optical complications.

General and specific competences (knowledge and skills): With the exam passed, students will be able to assess justifiability of contact lense application in eyesight correction, to determine the type of contact lenses; they will know how to adjust lenses, explain the risks of waring and handling lenses, to give instructions on their proper and safe maintenance, as well as on the need for regular checks of eyes and contact lenses.