Contact Lens Complications (Book with Access Code)

by Efron, Nathan

• ISBN13: 9780702042690
• ISBN10: 0702042692
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-06-01
• Publisher: SAUNDERS W B CO

Summary

Contact Lens Complications has become established as the definitive guide to the ocular response to contact lens wear. In this highly anticipated third edition, award-winning contact lens author, clinician and researcher, Professor Nathan Efron, presents a thoroughly revised and expanded, clinician-friendly account of how to identify, understand and manage contact lens complications in modern-day practice. Professor Efron is renowned for his ability to distil often complex principles of ocular physiology and pathology into an easy-to-read, highly structured format. The subject matter is systematically laid out, with various complications arranged logically by tissue structure - which is the way practitioners naturally approach clinical problems. Beautifully presented and lavishly illustrated with full-colour schematic diagrams and clinical pictures, this book can serve as both a practical chair-side manual and authoritative reference. All of the material is organised by the way you see it in the clinic - by slit-lamp appearance and tissue pathologies. As such, this book will be invaluable to all contact lens practitioners and students. Thoroughly revised, capturing the latest advances and concepts in contact lens related ocular pathology. Updated 'complications quick-find index' at the beginning of the book, constituting a valuable practitioner aid to formulating a rapid diagnosis and treatment plan, and serving students as a useful examination study aid. 350 new references (now over 1,250 in total) as the basis of a thorough evidence-based approach. 80 superb new illustrations (now 480 in total) to assist instant recognition of clinical signs. Grading scales for 16 contact lens complications, making this the most comprehensive and widely-used grading system available today. Pictorial tear film classification system. Incorporates findings from the Dry Eye Workshop (DEWS), the International Workshop on Meibomian Gland Dysfunction. New approach to considering corneal inflammatory events and microbial keratitis. Expanded chapter reviewing instrumentation and techniques for anterior eye examination. Redesigned grading morphs computer programme available online as a computer-based aid to assessing condition severity. Enhanced self-help grading tutor computer programme also available online to help hone your grading skills.