Eyesight Req?

[GatorHater]

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So I was talking to my eye doc the other day and he mentioned I would be very limited in the fields to practice in as far as my eyesight goes. (that being pretty much no surgery) He said the only problem I might have with Anesthesia is entabating patients.

 

[GatorHater]

no, I call that a typo. This means I misspelled a word. But you got what I meant by it so it worked out fine

 

[GatorHater]

20/30 and 20/80 with corrections (left eye and right eye respectively) Have trouble seeing up close with lenses in though but reading glass help with that. In other words I am like Benjamin Button

 

[coprolalia]

-copro

 

[Breezee]

So I was talking to my eye doc the other day and he mentioned I would be very limited in the fields to practice in as far as my eyesight goes. (that being pretty much no surgery) He said the only problem I might have with Anesthesia is entabating patients.

You could probably intubate grade I and II airways without too much of a problem. You will maybe have a harder time with more difficult airways. However, I feel that intubating is low on the list of potential problems. I would be concerned with reading the drug names and concentrations on vials when drawing up drugs. In emergency situations (or even during a routine anesthetic), I would be concerned with you giving the wrong med because of syringe labels looking the same (grabbing the wrong "purple" syringe). Starting pedi IV's could be difficult as could seeing images on an ultrasound for nerve blocks or interpreting a TEE. Corrective surgery not an option for you?

 

[GatorHater]

I don't have any problems seeing up close, which it what would seem to be the problem with the situations you mentioned. With my contacts in I don't see up close so well but again I wear reading glasses. But no corrective surgery is not an option in my specific situation. My main problem would probably be depth perception with the difference in vision with my eyes, but I have not noticed a problem in anything I do, but I know its different when doing procedures

 

[DET0897]

I don't see (pun intended..) why you could not have a career in anesthesia.

I know a VERY accomplished neurovascular surgeon with a glass eye. How he does it, I don't know. But it is interesting to see him clip a BTA one day, then walk straight into a closed door the next.

Lesson being, whatever you think your shortcomings will be due to your eyesight, you will learn to compensate with a little practice.

 

[GatorHater]

Yeah I would THINK that surgery would be the only specialty that I would have problems with. But I don't know because I don't know every aspect of every specialty. And also with the advances in technology, who knows what treatments might be available 5 years from now when I actually start a residency program God willing

 

[sweetalkr]

well you cant be an MDA, but you could be a CRNA and make the same money

 

[GatorHater]

so.... I couldn't do a spinal block? I am not aware of all the procedures that one can do and another can't