Recommended Books on Glaucoma
Cataract and Glaucoma for Eyecare Paraprofessionals (The Basic Bookshelf for Eyecare Professionals) The Basic Bookshelf for Eyecare Professionals is a series that provides fundamental and advanced material with a clinical approach to clinicians and students. A special effort was made to include information needed for the certification exams in ophthalmic and optometric assisting, as well as for surgical assistants, opticians, plus low vision, and contact lens examiners.
Written especially for auxiliary personnel, this text not only includes sections on cataract and glaucoma but also contains common patient questions and misconceptions. The cataract chapters cover types, causes, symptoms, and detection of cataracts. Cataract surgery is also discussed, including traditional surgery as well as combination procedures. The glaucoma chapters give details on the physiology of intraocular pressure, such as aqueous formation and drainage. There are individual chapters on open angle glaucoma, angle closure glaucoma, secondary glaucoma, and congenital glaucoma. Each chapter gives causes, details for patient work-ups, detection, and diagnosis, and treatment modalities.
Glaucoma (Essentials in Ophthalmology)
This second Glaucoma volume of the Essentials in Ophthalmology series, as in the first, provides a picture of recent progress in the field of glaucoma, in both basic clinical research and applied clinical science. Its intention is not to replace textbooks on glaucoma, but to serve as a conceptual bridge between original research and textbook presentation. The volume encompasses: Frequently unmentioned aspects of therapy including adherence, persistence and health economics. An update on electrophysiology and its relevance to glaucoma diagnosis and monitoring
Aspects of glaucoma management, such as risk calculation and tube shunt procedures. New aqueous outflow concepts.
A look into the future of glaucoma medical therapy.
The editors have set out to provide the reader with diverse and interesting topics reflective of the evidence-based, modern approach to the field of glaucoma.
Risk Prevention in Ophthalmology
The press, in both professional medical journals and mass media and, is overflowing with conflicting reports and sometimes confusing data about the costs of medical malpractice litigation. Incontrovertible is the fact that for physicians in daily practice, these questions are not merely academic. A lawsuit can wreck havoc on a clinicians professional and personal life. In Risk Prevention in Ophthalmology, many of the questions surrounding medical malpractice are answered clearly, concisely and pragmatically for physicians, but physicians. Written with an emphasis on clinical matters, with a minimum of legalese, this book shows ophthalmologists how to avoid law suits in the first place. How truly informed are your patients after signing your consent forms? Do your patients have rational, reasonable expectations regarding outcomes? Are your history-taking and record keeping habits leaving you exposed? Are you sufficiently careful with documentation? Should you find yourself involved in litigation, chapters written by physician attorneys provide insights into both the defendant and plaintiff perspectives. Among the more helpful chapters, Natural History of a Lawsuit, walks the reader step-by-step through the procedure. (This chapter is like ground rounds for legal issues.) Covering the legal issues for all of ophthalmology, Risk Prevention in Ophthalmology provides the busy clinician with the tools necessary to reduce not only the risk of potential lawsuits, but also insights for coping with actual ones.
2007-2008 Basic and Clinical Science Course Section 10: Glaucoma Covers recent developments and controversies regarding glaucoma. Includes new clinical images that illustrate both disease entities and surgical techniques and discussions of recent clinical trials.
Atlas of Glaucoma Surgery Glaucoma is a term used to describe many different eye diseases which gradually weaken and reduce vision, often without outward symptoms. Most forms of glaucoma are caused by a problem with drainage within the eye, and there are a number of different recognised types. Despite all our available medical advances, unfortunately as yet loss of vision from glaucoma is irreversible. In this book the editors have compiled 17 chapters on the most up to date glaucoma surgery worldwide, including laser treatment, implants and non-penetrative surgery. As the editors themselves say - "even though we still do not fully understand the mechanisms and genetic background to the conditions known as glaucoma, we are able to offer palliative and sometime curable therapies." Thus the book provides essential information to ophthalmic surgeons and practitioners who need to update and maintain their knowledge and skills when combating the multitude of glaucoma problems.
Primary Care of the Glaucomas Taking a multidisciplinary approach to glaucoma management, this extensively revised, new edition incorporates the talents of today's finest glaucoma experts in optometry and ophtahlmology. New chapters address such topics as blood flow, intraocular pressure, imaging the optic nerve, visual field defects, laser procedures, filtering surgery, new medications, and pigmentary glaucoma. Designed to meet the changing needs of optometrists as well as ophthalmology residents.
Shields' Textbook of Glaucoma This popular reference on glaucoma management now offers a more practical and clinically focused textbook for ophthalmologists and residents. Readers find new or extensively updated information on cellular and molecular biology of the eye, molecular genetics and classification of glaucomas, epidemiology and public health, screening and risk assessment, congenital and developmental glaucomas with anomalies, pseudo-exfoliation syndrome, and management of the glaucoma patient and approach to treatment. Key points and "Pearls" are summarized at the end of each chapter.
Glaucoma: A Guide for Patients, An Introduction for Care Providers, A Quick Reference Glaucoma is a disease that poses a serious threat to vision. Patients seek to know how the disease originates, wheather they did something "wrong" to cause it, wheather a change in thier lifestyle can improve it, and which treatment options are available. This book will provide patients , relatives and friends, as wwell as care providers and even those simply interested in this topic with a better understanding of the clinical picture of glaucoma.
MemoCharts Pharmacology: Drug Therapy for Glaucoma (Review chart) (Paperback) An integrated mini review of the drug therapy for glaucoma, illustrated with visually appealing tables and diagrams. A quick visual aid for the course study and board review
Posterior Eye Disease and Glaucoma A-Z This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. It is a handy A-Z pocket book that covers a broad range of posterior segment eye conditions and how to manage them with ocular therapeutics. It provides essential treatment protocols and down-to-earth sensible advice and lists differential diagnoses.
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