Clinical Procedures in PRIMARY EYE CARE

Clinical Procedures in PRIMARY EYE CARE

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CONTENTS 

Chapter 1 Evidence-based Eye Examinations – David B. Elliott

Chapter 2 Communication Skills – David B. Elliott

Chapter 3 Assessment of Visual Function – David B. Elliot

Chapter 4  Refraction and Prescribing – David B. Elliott

Chapter 5 Contact Lens Assessment – Catharine Chisholm

Chapter 6 Assessment of Binocular Vision and Accommodation – Brendan T. Barrett

Chapter 7 Ocular Health Assessment – C. Lisa Prokopich, Patricia Hrynchak, David B. Elliott and John G. Flanagan

Chapter 8 Variations in Appearance of the Normal Eye – David B. Elliott and Konrad Pesudovs

Chapter 9 Physical Examination Procedures – Patricia Hrynchak

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About Book

This textbook was written primarily as a teaching aid for undergraduate optometry students and for practi-tioners wishing to review their clinical practice. Chapter 1 discusses evidence-based optometry and how clinical tests and procedures are assessed in the research literature and how such reports should be critiqued. It also compares the various formats of an eye examination and discusses the theory behind the use of screening tests in primary eye care. Chapter 2 introduces the communication skills used in an eye examination and discusses the case history and how it should be performed. Tests are subsequently grouped together in terms of which system they assess: visual function (Chapter 3), refraction and prescribing (Chapter 4), binocular vision and accommodation (Chapter 6) and ocular health (Chapter 7). This layout was chosen because the organisation of the book is directed towards the assimilation of a problem-oriented approach that is built upon a systems exami-nation (Section 1.3). Grouping the tests in this way, rather than in the order they are typically used in an eye examination, may also help students to better appreciate the relationship between the various tests that assess a particular system. To develop ocular health skills in discriminating between disease and the normal eye, it is essential to know many presentations that a normal eye can make and a brief description and collection of photographs of these normal variations is presented in Chapter 8 and the accompanying website to supplement the information provided in atlases of ocular disease. Chapter 9 completes the book with an introduction to some physical examination procedures that may be used in primary care eye examinations