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accomodation

PERRLA

Pupils Equal Round Reactive to Light and Accomodation

AHHHHHH! I've been wondering myself and felt too silly to ask.

Well thank you very much....appreciate it. :)

only a conscious patient will accomodate: which is basically to focus in on what they are looking at.

I thought accomodation was the unlit pupil becoming larger when the other pupil had light shone in it. (If that makes any sense.)

I thought that accomodation meant the patient is able to follow the examiners fingers and as the examiner moves her fingers closer to the face the pupils constrict and when moved away the pupils dilate.

Accomodation, as in the adjustment of the pupil to light according to what the patient is focusing on.

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Gator

Originally posted by NurseGirlKaren

I thought accomodation was the unlit pupil becoming larger when the other pupil had light shone in it. (If that makes any sense.)

This is what I was taught also.

Accomodation is also called the near reflex. The pupil contricts to adjust light and focus on an object that is close. If the object is moved away from the face and farther away the pupil must eventually dilate and adjust the light again to focus.

When one pupil constricts because the opposite was stimulated with a bright light...it is call consentual. Pupils should react to both direct and consentual light.

Thank you for clearing that up!:)

Hey, if anybody can clear it up, it's an ICUNeuroNerd!!!

Thanks.

thanks guys, just don't ask me about cardiac stuff. hehe.