Ophthalmology at a glance
"This fully updated new edition teaches you exactly what they need to know, starting with taking a history and examination, before moving through specific conditions and their treatment. It includes new chapters on tropical ophthalmology, ocular oncology and giant cell arteritis, extra chapters...
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| Language: | English |
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Chichester, UK
Wiley Blackwell
2014
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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| Call Number : | med WW 18.2 .O648 2014 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: what is ophthalmology?
- Medical student aims
- Social and occupational aspects of vision
- Taking the history and recording the findings
- Visual acuity in adults
- Examination of visual fields
- Other visual functions
- Basic optics and refraction
- Glasses, contact lenses, and low vision aids
- External eye and anterior segment
- Posterior segment and retina
- Use of eye drops
- Red eye: the conjunctiva
- Red eye: the cornea
- Red eye: the sclera and episclera
- Ophthalmic trauma principles and management of chemical injuries
- Specific features of blunt and sharp injuries
- Loss of vision in the inflamed eye
- Sudden painful loss of vision in a non-inflammed eye
- Sudden painless loss of vision
- Gradual loss of vision
- Visual acuity in children
- Strabismus (squints)
- Neonates
- Infants and older children
- Common eyelid lumps
- Common eyelid malpositions
- Lacrimal (tearing)
- Basic orbital assessment
- Orbit disease, thyroid eye disease and facial palsy
- Ocular oncology
- Common conditions affecting the external eye
- Common conditions affecting the cornea
- Medical uses of contact lenses
- Corneal and laser photorefractive surgery
- Cataract assessment
- Cataract surgery
- Cataract surgery postoperative care
- Glaucoma: the basics
- Detecting glaucoma
- Medical and surgical treatment of glaucoma
- Retinal detachment
- Retinal and choroidial anatomy and imaging
- Inherited retinal disorders and age related macular degeneration
- Diabetic retionopathy classification and typical lesions
- Diabetic retionopathy treatment
- Retinal artery onstruction
- Retinal vein occlusion
- HIV infection and AIDS-- Tropical ophthalmology: tropical eye disease
- Tropical ophthalmology: global eye health
- Pupil abnormalities
- Optic nerve disease
- Cranial nerve palsies and eye movement disorders
- Visual fields defects
- Giant cell arteritis