A patient with conjunctivitis comes in the clinic for contact tonometry. What should you do?
A)Proceed as normal
B)Use another method or reschedule the patient for a future date
C)Let the physician know and then proceed as normal
D)Guess the IOP

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Use another method or reschedule the patient for a future date
If a patient with conjunctivitis comes in the clinic for contact tonometry, you should use another method to determine the intraocular pressure or reschedule the patient for a future date. The reason contact tonometry should not be done on a patient with an eye infection is because the infection can be spread to the other eye. The patient should be treated for the infection and given a future appointment if no other tonometry methods are possible.

A Patient with Conjunctivitis Comes in the Clinic for Contact