Item 2: Best Gaze Ask the patient to follow my finger across horizontal eye movements. Aphasic or confused patients: use tracking.
{"Image DocumentName": "Item 2: Best GazeAsk the patient to follow my finger across horizontal eye movements. Aphasic or confused patients: use tracking.", "Image ImageDescription": "Unconscious patients: use oculocephalic maneuver. OK to coach. Item 2: Best Gaze. Gaze is the act of focusing the eyes in a particular direction. Observe and score only horizontal eye movements (CNIII, VI). Voluntary or reflexive (oculocephalic) eye movements will be scored but caloric testing is not done. Patients with ocular trauma, bandages, pre-existing blindness or other disorder of visual acuity or fields should be tested with reflexive movements and a choice made by the investigator. This item is an exception to the rules of using the first observable response and not coaching. You can coach the pt, and use the best response as the score. In the patient who fails voluntary gaze, the oculocephalic maneuver and tracking are used to provide stronger testing stimuli.", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}