 I'm Dr. David Meyer, I'm the Director of Contact Lens Services here at the Moran Eye Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, and today we're going to go through how to calculate a glasses prescription for a patient and then based on that how to properly fit a contact lens to that patient. One thing that's very important to remember when your patient comes in is case history. Find out the last eye exam, any medical issues in general, any previous history of eye surgeries or eye diseases or any sort of complications that they may have had in the past. To begin, the exam will start with calculating a glasses prescription. We're going to start by putting the feropter in front of the patient and what's really important is first of all to make sure that the pupil distance in the feropter matches the pupil distance of the patient and in order to do that there's this knob here at the top that adjusts whether the pupil distance is smaller or larger. In this case, this patient has a pupil distance of 62 and so I'm going to set it up here at this indicator line at 62. Another important thing to factor in is to make sure that the feropter is level and to do so you use this leveling window here and to adjust it you turn this dial above and you try to get it so it's just level right there so the bubble and the dot match up. Okay, now in this case we're going to start with the right eye and then go to the left eye. In order to do so you turn this knob so it reads OC that means to occlude the left eye so currently both of his eyes are open but you can only see through his right eye because the left eye is occluded. Now to begin this I'm going to blur the patient so that the letters there are very very blurry and because of previous readings I already have an idea of roughly what the prescription is based on his last glasses but I'm going to start out by making his vision very blurry in the right eye and I'm going to explain to the patient to tell me as soon as he can read these letters even if they're kind of blurry but as soon as he can read them. Right now I have displayed the 2030 line the 2030 line is a good line to kind of begin refining your refraction. So in this case I want you to tell me as soon as you can start to read those letters even if they're blurry I'm slowly adding more minus to his prescription about there so right when they say about there you know that you need to add another you know 0.5 to 0.75 more minus and that's going to be in the ballpark of your prescription. So in this case I'm continuing to refine the sphere so the sphere is on this side of the feropter and I'm refining it to get as close as we can before I start refining the cylinder component of this prescription. So I'm going to ask him is this any better? Yes. And even better? Yes. And at this point once you get a good ballpark of the spherical component of the prescription now you switch over to do the cylinder portion of his prescription. And to do so I turn this this lens is called the JCC. The JCC is short for Jackson Cross Cylinder and it helps us refine how much astigmatism he has and what the orientation of that astigmatism is. And in this case as I flip it as you can tell I'm going to be asking what looks more sharp and clear. Okay so in this case I'm going to ask him what is more sharp and clear? Number one or number two? Number one. So in this case he said number one and for a plus cylinder feropter which this is we turn the dial in the direction of the white dot here on the JCC. So in his case because he said number one is better I turn the dial currently it's at about 85 degrees I turn it to about 75 in this case. And then I ask him again and let me kind of reiterate here that right now in the JCC the two dots are straddling this axis here. So right here on this axis refinement where all these numbers are you know zero through 180 the line right now matches up at axis 75 and these two dots are on either side of that. So that's important in order to know to figure out where the axis of his prescription is. So in this case I'm going to move it here and I'm going to say what's more clear? Number one or number two? We'll do it again. Number one or number two? Number two. Okay good. So I'm going to move it toward the direction of the white which is this way. I'm going to ask him again which is more clear? Number one or number two? Better about the same. Pretty close. Just to be safe I'm going to move it a little bit more in that same direction and ask him again what's more sharp and clear? Number one or number two? Number one. Number one. So we're going to go back to where we began here which is at axis 55 and based on his previous glasses that he walked in with or previous refraction or whatever you know previous prescription we have we know that that's pretty close to what he had before so we know we're on the right track. Now in order to refine how much cylinder he needs in his prescription we have to turn the JCC so now the dots line up with this little arrow here. So right now the two white dots here match up at axis 55 that you can see there and that is how you begin your power refinement. And so in this case it's the same thing if he likes it when the white is lined up that means you want to add more cylinder. If he likes it when the red is lined up he wants less. So in this case let's ask him what's more sharp and clear? Number one or number two? Can I see them again? Yeah. Number one or number two? Two. Two. So he liked it better with the red and currently he has one diopter of cylinder in there so I'm going to take out a quarter and then I'm going to ask him again what's more clear? Number one or number two? I bought the same. Pretty close and I want to be a little more sure so I'm going to take it down to 0.5 cylinder and because I've added 0.5 cylinder of essentially minus because I'm taking away some plus to compensate for that I have to add a quarter of plus here in the spherical component of the foropter to maintain a spherical equivalent of the prescription. So we'll ask him again what's more clear? Number one or number two? Number one or number two? About the same. About the same. So in this case since it's about the same you know that you're very close to what we need just to check one more time I'm going to bring this down to 0.25 cylinder and ask him again. Number one or number two? Definitely number one. Definitely number one and we'll do one more time what do you like better? This is number one or number two? They're still pretty close. They're still pretty close. So at that point we've now refined the axis of the cylinder and now we've refined the degree or the power of the cylinder. So as you can tell here right now it's a negative 575 plus 50 axis 45 and then to go back I'm going to go back to the spherical component and refine that a little bit. I'm going to ask him a few more questions. What looks more sharp and clear? Number one or number two? Number one or number two? One. One. Okay now there are other means by which you can make sure that you haven't over minused or over plus the patient. You can balance the eyes if we're working on both eyes and that's something we can cover in a different segment. But for now based on his previous findings, his last glasses prescription and what we found on an auto refractor for example, we know we're pretty darn close and then you're going to have the patient read those letters. O-F-L-C-T. And we can even make it down to the 2020 line. Go ahead and read that. T-Z-V-E-C-L. Excellent. Okay. Okay. So now that we've got the glasses prescription calculated, at that point we need to work on fitting the patient with the contact lens. Now when the patient expresses desire to wear a contact lens, there are a number of factors that you need to consider. You need to consider how much the patient wants to wear the contact lens. Every day or once in a while, you need to find out about past history of his eyes. Does he have dry eye problems? Does he have care to conus or another corneal abnormality? Those are all very important questions to ask to kind of help fit the lifestyle of the patient. For today's purposes, we're going to be fitting the patient with a monthly lens. This particular one is called a biofinity toric. It's a lens where you take it out at night and put it in the morning and after one month you throw it away. But we're going to go through and show how to put it on a patient's eyes, how to assess it, and how to get the best vision out of it. Now one thing that's very important is when you calculate a glasses prescription, remember that that is almost always different than a contact lens prescription. The reason why is because the optical surface of glasses sits out on average about 12 millimeters from the front surface of an eye, whereas a contact lens rests directly on the eye. So that changes the optics. So be sure you use a vertex calculator to determine the correct prescription for a contact lens. For example, for this patient, the spherical equivalent of his prescription is a negative 5.75. If you put that in a vertex calculator, what that would give you is that the proper contact lens would be a negative 5.5. Now in today's purposes, we're going to put a toric contact lens on his eye for demonstration purposes only. And before we do that, it's very important that you get some sort of carotometry reading, whether manual carotometry, automated, or even a topography. Any of those will help determine which base curve and diameter would be best suited for the patient. So for today's purposes, like I said, we're going to be fitting the patient with a biofinity toric contact lens. And when you take it out of the blister pack, it's important to make sure that the contact lens is not in sight out. And the best way to tell is to kind of hold it up against the light. And if you look at the edge of the contact lens, the edges should point straight up toward the ceiling like a bowl. If you look at it and the edges are kind of flared out or splayed out or they're kind of flattened out, that usually means it's inside out. Now that usually doesn't cause a lot of problems, but it can cause some discomfort for the patient. So make sure that the contact lens is not inside out. Now I've put the contact lens on the edge of my finger and contact lens is typically stick to the surface that is wetter. And so try to make sure that your finger is nice and dry so that the contact lens will stick on the patient's eye instead of your finger. Now to do so, I'm going to have the patient lean back and look up high toward the ceiling. And very gently I'm going to pull down on the lower lid and pull up on the upper lid. And as he looks up high, I'm going to first place it close to the lower limbus of his cornea, like so. Now how the patient looked down toward the floor, because when you look down toward the floor it has a tendency to help center the contact lens. And make sure that the patient blinks normally to help center the contact lens even more. Now when you place the contact lens on the patient's eye, be sure to give the contact lens a couple of minutes to settle down, especially if it's a toric lens. A toric lens has a tendency to orient in the correct position, but it takes a few minutes for the patient's natural blinks to put it in the correct position. In this case we've given the patient a good solid five minutes to let the contact lens settle down. At this point I'm going to pull the slit lamp over here and take a close-up look at the lens to make sure it's fitting properly. Okay, come on forward, put your chin down there and your forehead resting forward. Now there are several factors when assessing a contact lens. Number one, what we can do is we can pull down on the lower lid just gently and we can see the toric marking. In this particular brand of contact lens the toric marking should be ideally at six o'clock. As you can see here, the contact lens is about ten degrees to the left. So it's rotating a little bit temporarily. As you assess this have the patient blink normally. And as he blinks you can see the movement of the contact lens. Now ideally you would like the contact lens to move a little bit, maybe point one to point two millimeters, but not too much because if it's too much then it'll be uncomfortable. Blink. Another important thing is to make sure there's full limble coverage and that the contact lens extends beyond the limbus onto the conjunctiva and it's not rubbing against the limbus. In this case the contact lens is rotating about ten degrees or as you're looking at his right eye it's rotating to my left. In that case whatever the axis of the contact lens or excuse me of the glasses prescription you add ten degrees and put that in the contact lens if you decide to put another one on. That rule is commonly referred to as the LARS rule. So if it's to the left you add, if it's to the right you subtract. So in this case it was to the left ten degrees you added ten degrees to the glasses prescription and then we place that on the contact. We use that in the final contact lens prescription. Now after the contact lens has settled then you check the visual acuity and then you will do what's commonly called an over refraction. Now an over refraction is to make sure that the contact lens is not too weak or too strong or that you've got the axis wrong. And for soft contact lenses most of the time as you vertex correctly but the correct contact lens on the over refraction should be close to plano. But behind the ferroctor it's always good to make sure so you do a spherical refinement to make sure the patient is not accepting more plus or more minus or in some cases some astigmatism. Thank you for watching this video again I'm Dr. David Meyer and today's video was about fitting a patient with a soft contact lens after doing a basic subjective refraction. Thank you.