Clinical Procedures in Primary Eye Care: Expert Consult: Online and Print

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You'll find essential instructions for mastering the procedures you need to know, including recent technical advances in the field. It helps to simplify a lot of concepts that other books/literature often make unnecessarily complicated. I especially liked the communication videos, showing examples of history taking for a range of patients and how best to explain concepts such as cataract. Well organized and easy to read, Clinical Procedures in Primary Eye Care, 5th Edition , takes an accessible, step-by-step approach to describing the commonly used primary care procedures that facilitate accurate diagnosis and effective patient management. At the other end of the spectrum, there are explanations of medical procedures including carotid auscultation and checking for lymphadenopathy (figure 7).

Clinical Procedures in Primary Eye Care helps you master all of the knowledge you need to support today's growing optometric patient population. Presents outstanding new digital images of OCT cases and optomaps for a wide variety of conditions of the central and peripheral retina. Master the commonly used primary eye-care procedures you need to know to care for today’s growing optometric patient population.Since I acquired the 2nd edition of Clinical Procedures in Primary Eye Care, over 20 years ago, I have always kept my copy nearby in clinic. Presents new digital images of normal variations of the eye – crucial visual support for understanding what is normal and what is disease. CLOs as well as optometrists should find the slit-lamp images and videos of, for example, fluorescein fits of a range of rigid lenses (figure 4) and dry eye assessment (including the latest TFOS DEWS2 information) of great interest.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Smart study tools such as note sharing and subscription, review mode, and Microsoft OneNote integration.While comparable to other books in the field, this one stands out due to its strong online library of photos and videos. In fact, the overview of OCT use is an excellent starting point for anyone wishing to develop their OCT skills. The chapters are well organized, the tables and figures are very useful, and the references are complete. Understand how to treat today's aging optometric patient population through a brand-new section on Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT), in addition to numerous suggestions on how to adapt some tests for older patients.