Ophthalmology at a Glance
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Ophthalmology at a Glance

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Ophthalmology at a Glance

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About This Book

Ophthalmology at a Glance provides a concise overview of the specialty, with clear and simple diagrams illustrating the essential information required for students, trainee optometrists, opticians and specialty nurses.

It includes details on history and examination, before moving through specific conditions and their treatment. Closely tracking the undergraduate ophthalmology curriculum, this new edition is fully updated to reflect new developments in the field.

Ophthalmology at a Glance:

• Features tip boxes to give further insight into topics, warning boxes to indicate cautionary advice, help with exam technique, further reading, and key point boxes which summarize each chapter

• Includes new chapters on tropical ophthalmology, ocular oncology and giant cell arteritis

• Features expanded material on red eye and painful loss of vision, and discussion of new scientific evidence for the existence of a sixth layer of the cornea (Dua's layer)

• Includes a companion website at www.ataglanceseries.com/ophthal featuring clinical case studies, all the clinical images from the book as PowerPoint slides, and interactive flashcards for self-test

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Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Year
2014
ISBN
9781118797235
Edition
2
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Surgery & Surgical Medicine

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright page
  4. Contents
  5. Preface to the second edition
  6. Preface to first edition
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Contributors
  9. How to use your textbook
  10. About the companion website
  11. Part 1: Principles of ophthalmology
  12. Part 2: Ophthalmic history and examination
  13. Part 3: Correction of refractive errors
  14. Part 4: Basic eye examination
  15. Part 5: Acute ophthalmology
  16. Part 6: Gradual loss of vision
  17. Part 7: Sub-specialty—Paediatric ophthalmology
  18. Part 8: Sub-specialty—Eyelid, lacrimation and orbit
  19. Part 9: Sub-specialty—External eye disease
  20. Part 10: Sub-specialty—Corneal, refractive and cataract surgery
  21. Part 11: Sub-specialty—Glaucoma
  22. Part 12: Sub-specialty—Vitreo-retinal
  23. Part 13: Sub-specialty—Neuro-ophthalmology
  24. Appendix 1: Red eye—signs and symptoms of different causes
  25. Appendix 2: The layers of the retina
  26. Appendix 3: Pharmacological intraocular pressure (IOP)-lowering agents—mechanism of action and side effects
  27. Appendix 4: Optical coherence tomography (OCT) reports
  28. Appendix 5: Important clinical trials in AMD
  29. Index