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Ophthalmology at a Glance
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newark :
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,
2014.
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| Colección: | New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface to the second edition
- Preface to first edition
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- How to use your textbook
- About the companion website
- Part 1: Principles of ophthalmology
- 1: Introduction: what is ophthalmology?
- What is ophthalmology?
- Type of patients
- Team
- Sub-specialties
- Ophthalmology at medical school
- How to get into ophthalmology
- 2: Medical student aims
- Systematic approach
- Aims
- Core knowledge
- Medical student objectives
- Essential ophthalmic skills
- Things to do when you visit the eye department
- 3: Social and occupational aspects of vision
- Aims
- United Kingdom and developed industrialized countries
- Children
- Adults
- Economic blindness
- Services and support in the United Kingdom and Ireland (children and adults)
- Part 2: Ophthalmic history and examination
- 4: Taking the history and recording the findings
- Aims
- Structure of ophthalmic history
- Presenting complaint (PC)
- History of the presenting complaint (HPC)
- Family history (FH)
- Past ocular history (POH)
- Allergies
- Past medical history (PMH)
- Medications
- Social history
- The eye examination
- Systematic examination
- 5: Visual acuity in adults
- Aims
- Definitions
- Distance and near vision
- Distance vision
- Near vision
- 6: Examination of visual fields
- Aim
- Visual field
- Normal field of vision
- Examination technique (Figure 6.3)
- 7: Other visual functions
- Aims
- Colour vision
- Optic nerve
- Macula
- Clinical assessment
- Ishihara
- Red desaturation
- Amsler chart (Figure 7.3)
- Pupil reactions
- Part 3: Correction of refractive errors
- 8: Basic optics and refraction
- Aims
- Refraction by the eye
- Refraction techniques
- Subjective refraction
- Objective refraction
- Retinoscopy
- Accommodation (Figure 8.2)
- Refractive errors (Figure 8.3)
- 9: Glasses, contact lenses and low-vision aids
- Aims
- Optical lenses (Figure 9.1)
- Spherical lens
- Toric (cylinder) lens
- Prisms
- Contact lenses (CLs) (Figure 9.2)
- Indications for CLs
- Types of CLs
- Low-vision aids
- Text magnification
- Page navigation
- Part 4: Basic eye examination
- 10: External eye and anterior segment
- Aims
- Anatomy
- Systematic examination
- Lids
- Conjunctiva
- Cornea
- Intraocular pressure (IOP)
- Anterior chamber (AC)
- Iris
- Lens
- 11: Posterior segment and retina
- Aims
- Definitions
- Examination technique
- Dilate the pupils for a better view
- Do not dilate the pupils in the following situations
- Direct ophthalmoscopy
- Indirect ophthalmoscopy (Figure 11.9)
- Slit lamp biomicroscope (Figures 11.10 and 11.11)
- 12: Use of eye drops
- Aims
- Definitions
- Drops for ocular surface examination
- Fluorescein
- Rose Bengal
- Topical anaesthetic drops
- Oxybuprocaine 0.4% (Benoxinate)
- Tetracaine 0.5% and 1.0% (Amethocaine)