Full Description
This book provides practical guidance to primary care eye professionals. It is fully illustrated with online links for making an initial diagnosis with advice on management and therapy. It covers the common sight-threatening conditions including glaucoma, AMD, diabetes, cataract, inflammatory and immune-based diseases, conjunctival and corneal infections.
Key Features:
Introduces prescribing, pharmacokinetics and ocular pharmacopeia with epidemiological surveys and basic statistics.
Helps eye care professionals diagnose, manage and treat common eye diseases in the community setting in the global health environment.
Includes clinical 'pearls' for diagnosis and ocular emergencies.
Contents
Chapter 1: How to diagnose and assess eye disease. Chapter 2:Clinical pearls for diagnosis - signs and symptoms Chapter 3: Sight-threatening conditions in Primary Care - Clinical Presentation & Management Chapter 4: Dry Eye Disease (DED) and inflammatory conditions Chapter 5: Uveitis. Chapter 6:Diagnosis and treatment of ocular infection Chapter 7:Tropical public health and global eye care Chapter 8:Epidemiological surveys and basic statistics - pitfalls and solutions Chapter 9: Refractive error, myopia control and contact lenses. Chapter 10:Pathogenesis of infection and the ocular immune response. Appendix.
