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Fast Facts: Ophthalmology - Softcover

Simcock, Peter

 
9781908541727: Fast Facts: Ophthalmology

Synopsis

This fully updated new edition has been designed for ease and speed of use in clinical practice. It will empower you with the knowledge to triage your patients into three main groups:

  • emergencies requiring immediate referral
  • non-emergencies requiring routine referral
  • those with treatable conditions.

Primarily intended for doctors, optometrists, ophthalmic nurses and other health professionals involved with eye care within the community, this refreshingly readable handbook discusses the major ophthalmological symptoms in the context of daily clinical practice.

Contents:

  • Basic eye assessment: history and examination
  • Red eye
  • Blurred vision
  • Double vision
  • Other important symptoms
  • Gritty, itchy or watery eyes
  • Abnormal eye appearance and/or eye examination
  • Diabetes, hypertension and systemic medications
  • Eyelid disease
  • Children s eye problems
  • Eye trauma
  • Useful resources

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About the Author

Peter Simcock MB ChB MRCP FRCS FRCOphth DO, Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, West of England Eye Unit, Exeter, Devon, UK

Andre Burger MB ChB DipEC DipOphth FRCOphth(SA) CESR(UK), Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon Mediclinic, Greys/Edendale Hospital Complex, Pietermaritzburg, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa

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