Emergency
Ocular Emergency 2018
| Ocular Emergency is a systematic, symptom based reference book for clinical practice guidance. This book aims to provide the most thorough knowledge and standard process to clinical practitioners, such as the nurses, medical students, residents, fellows and even ophthalmologists, to help them make the most appropriate decision on the management of patients who have suffered from urgent ocular conditions. The first three chapters provide the audiences general information of ocular emergency and the emergency room (ER), which will help them generate a clinical thinking. The following four chapters are symptom based discussion of common complaints of ocular emergency. These chapters contain almost all the symptoms the audiences will meet in the ER and covers hundreds of diseases the audiences may or may not think of which fits the symptom. They will help the readers to make the right diagnose and offer the best advice or treatment to the patients. The last two chapters provide the audiences the information of most urgent ocular traumas. For each disease, definition, etiology, clinical presentations and signs, treatment and typical clinical case with pictures or illustrative figures will be provided. In addition, each chapter will be provided with an algorithym(s) for differential diagnosis and treatment as a summary of the chapter. Hopefully this book may help the clinical practitioners to be fully prepared for any challenge of ocular emergency cases. | |||
Table of contents : Front Matter ....Pages i-vii General Guideline of Ophthalmic Emergency (Hong Yan, Song Wang)....Pages 1-9 Emergency Room (ER) (Haoyu Chen, Danny Siu-Chun Ng)....Pages 11-18 Patient Care Process of Ocular Emergency (Hua Yan, Jiaxing Wang, Ying Li, Xiangda Meng, Xuyang Yao)....Pages 19-28 Acute Redness of the Eye (Bo Huang)....Pages 29-55 Acute Disturbance/Loss of Vision (Gokhan Gurelik, Huseyin Baran Ozdemir)....Pages 57-94 Acute Visual Field Impairment (Bo Huang, Suxia Li)....Pages 95-147 Acute Pain in the Eye (Ugur Acar, Ahmet M. Hondur, Gungor Sobaci)....Pages 149-173 Open-Globe Injuries (Sengul Ozdek, Ece Ozdemir)....Pages 175-213 Chemical Injuries of the Cornea (Weiyun Shi, Suxia Li)....Pages 215-232 Emergency of Ocular Adnexa (Haoyu Chen, Dan Chao, Guihua Xu, Chen Lin, Zeyi Li)....Pages 233-238 |
