The ophthalmic assistant : a guide for ophthalmic medical personnel /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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St. Louis :
Mosby,
[2000]
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| Edition: | Seventh edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Basic sciences
- Anatomy of the eye
- Physiology of the eye
- Optics
- Pharmacology
- Microbiology
- 2. Clinical practice
- Office efficiency and public relations
- History taking
- Preliminary examination
- Understanding ophthalmic equipment
- Refractive errors and how to correct them
- Automated refractors / David L. Guyton
- Facts about glasses
- Rigid contact lenses: basics
- Soft contact lenses
- Advanced techniques in soft and rigid contact lens fitting
- Visual fields
- Automated visual field testing / Howard S. Barnebey, Richard P. Mills
- Ocular injuries
- The urgent case
- Common eye disorders
- Common retinal disorders
- Glaucoma
- Examination of the newborn, infant, and small child / Alex V. Levin
- Maintenance of ophthalmic equipment and instruments
- 3. Assisting the surgeon
- Aseptic technique and minor office surgery
- The operative patient
- Highlights of ocular surgery
- Assisting the surgeon
- Lasers in ophthalmology / E. Rand Simpson
- Ambulatory surgery
- Refractive surgery
- 4. Special procedures
- Ocular motility and binocular vision
- Ophthalmic photography / Csaba L. Mártonyi
- Advances in diagnostic testing
- Visual aids for the partially sighted
- 5. Community ocular programs
- Blind persons in the modern world
- Reading problems in children
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
- 6. Expanded roles of the ophthalmic assistant
- Computers in ophthalmic practice / Gerard E. Meltzer
- The role of ophthalmic medical personnel in clinical ophthalmology practice / Bernard R. Blais
- Appendixes
- Office supplies in common use
- Estimating visual loss
- Short forms in clinical use
- Vision and driving
- Optical constants of the eye
- Metric conversion
- Diopter to millimeters radius conversion tables
- Vertex conversion table
- Diopters of corneal refracting power
- Compensation for effect of vertex distances (used when plus lens is moved from the eye)
- Compensation for effect of vertex distances (used when plus lens is moved toward the eye)
- Dioptric curves for extended range of keratometer
- Translations of commonly asked questions and commands
- Ocular emergencies
- Principles of informed consent
- Current ophthalmic pharmaceuticals.