Columbia Guide to Basic Elements of Eye Care

This unique resource is a practical, easy-to-use guide for the non-ophthalmologist healthcare provider as they encounter patients with eye complaints and other concerning ophthalmic conditions. The Columbia Guide to Basic Elements of Eye Care: A Manual for the Healthcare Professional is specifically designed with the non-ophthalmologist in mind, and provides a foundation of basic eye anatomy and physiology, functional analysis, pathology, and concepts in eye care.

Each chapter delivers an accessible summary of various ophthalmic diseases and conditions, all of which are frequently encountered in everyday practice. These chapters provide in-depth discussions on a wide range of topics, from testing and examination procedures, to management protocols, referral guidelines and expected frequency of follow-up for each disorder. Complete with dozens of high quality and descriptive illustrations created by Daniel S. Casper, The Columbia Guide to Basic Elements of Eye Care: A Manual for the Healthcare Professional presents clear, understandable explanations of basic eye anatomy, physiology, disease and treatment for those non-ophthalmic practitioners and students. In doing so, this guide provides a framework to determining the normal versus the abnormal, all of which the reader can use to decide which patients require referral to a specialist, and to identify which conditions are developing, require urgent treatment, or can be routinely followed. Written by leaders in the field, non-ophthalmologist healthcare providers and students alike will find this book a practical resource to consult as they continue working with patients with treatable but potentially sight-threatening ocular conditions.

Aceasta resursa unica este un ghid practic si usor de utilizat pentru furnizorul de asistenta medicala non-oftalmolog, intrucat intampina pacienti cu afectiuni oculare si alte afectiuni referitoare la oftalmologie. Ghidul Columbia pentru elementele de baza ale ingrijirii ochilor: un manual pentru profesionistii din domeniul sanatatii este conceput special pentru non-oftalmolog, si ofera o baza de anatomie si fiziologie oculara de baza, analiza functionala, patologie si concepte in ingrijirea ochilor. capitolul ofera un rezumat accesibil al diferitelor boli si afectiuni oftalmice, toate acestea fiind frecvent intalnite in practica de zi cu zi.