Ophthalmology at a Glance

Jane Olver, Laura Crawley, Gurjeet Jutley, Lorraine Cassidy

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9781405184731
• eBook ISBN: 9781118797235
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Surgery & Surgical Medicine

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

Table of contents

• 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
• Part 2: Ophthalmic history and examination
• Part 3: Correction of refractive errors
• Part 4: Basic eye examination
• Part 5: Acute ophthalmology
• Part 6: Gradual loss of vision
• Part 7: Sub-specialty—Paediatric ophthalmology
• Part 8: Sub-specialty—Eyelid, lacrimation and orbit
• Part 9: Sub-specialty—External eye disease
• Part 10: Sub-specialty—Corneal, refractive and cataract surgery
• Part 11: Sub-specialty—Glaucoma
• Part 12: Sub-specialty—Vitreo-retinal
• Part 13: Sub-specialty—Neuro-ophthalmology
• Appendix 1: Red eye—signs and symptoms of different causes
• Appendix 2: The layers of the retina
• Appendix 3: Pharmacological intraocular pressure (IOP)-lowering agents—mechanism of action and side effects
• Appendix 4: Optical coherence tomography (OCT) reports
• Appendix 5: Important clinical trials in AMD
• Index