Optometry Books

Butterworth Heinemann's Review Questions for the NBEO Examination: Part Two Approximately 1,000 multiple-choice questions with explanatory answers prepare the reader to pass Part II of the national, state, or local boards, or obtain state licensure. Organized by topic, this resource follows the format and proportional question breakdown of the actual exam, helping the reader prepare effectively and efficiently for this challenging test. The companion CD-ROM provides further practice with 500 additional questions, answers, and rationales.

Business Aspects of Optometry This clear, detailed text provides the basics for setting up and managing an optometric practice. Covering all the core aspects of the business side of a practice, content includes selecting a location and staff, equipping the office, office and personnel management, and marketing a practice.

The Fine Art of Prescribing Glasses Without Making a Spectacle of Yourself Award-winning text can help every clinician -- beginning and experienced --have more satisfied patients. Through 150 case studies, the book helps you solve everyday problems in refraction. It explores and explains the multitude of variables that can lead to patient complaints, giving logical answers to many different kinds of situations. The result will be more wise decisions in diagnosis and prescribing. Best Medical Book of the Year award (American Medical Writers Assn.).

How to Improve Your Child's Eyesight Naturally: A Thoughtful Parent's Guide A practical workbook for parents who want to improve the eyesight of their children--and themselves

Includes detailed instructions for reversing the most common eyesight problem of blur

Presents over 90 playful and creative exercises that apply to age groups from infant to adult

Offers practical information on dealing with doctors and common diagnoses

Includes tips on how nutrition, environment, and daily habits can improve eyesight

How to Improve Your Childs Eyesight Naturally should be a staple reference book for every household with children and adults who wish to preserve and improve their eyesight. This comprehensive resource teaches parents how to develop personalized programs for their childs specific vision needs, from erasing astigmatism to removing the need for glasses at all.

Filled with practical and imaginative exercises as well as ideas on how to keep these tasks fun for children, this book offers everything parents need to improve a childs vision: detailed instructions for reversing eyesight blur, creative activities appropriate for each age group, tips for adjusting living environments to support healthy vision, easy-to-understand explanations of common diagnoses, and hints for dealing with doctors. The 90 scientifically based vision games, such as Zoo Train and Birds on a Wire, are fun, age-appropriate, and include corresponding songs to reinforce good visual habits.

Hospital Medicine (Hospital Medicine (Wachter)) Thoroughly updated for its Second Edition, Hospital Medicine offers practical, evidence-based guidelines for the care of hospitalized patients. The only book geared directly and exclusively to inpatient management-;and edited by the national leaders of the hospitalist field-; Hospital Medicine includes indications for admission, guidelines for consultation, procedures for hospital discharge, diagnostic algorithms, and critical paths detailing effective, outcomes-oriented treatment plans for a range of diseases and disorders. New chapters in this edition focus on the hospitalist's increasing role in providing critical care, managing surgical patients with medical co-morbidities, ensuring patient safety and preventing adverse events, and directing hospital systems areas such as informatics, quality improvement, and practice management.

Clinical Anatomy of the Eye Clinical Anatomy of the Eye has proved to be a very popular textbook for ophthalmologists and optometrists in training all over the world. The objective of the book is to provide the reader with the basic knowledge of anatomy necessary to practice ophthalmology. It is recognised that this medical speciality requires a detailed knowledge of the eyeball and the surrounding structures. The specialist's knowledge should include not only gross anatomic features and their development, but also the microscopic anatomy of the eyeball and the ocular appendages. The nerve and blood supply to the orbit, the autonomic innervation of the orbital structures, the visual pathway, and associated visual reflexes should receive great emphasis. The practical application of anatomic facts to ophthalmology has been emphasised throughout this book in the form of Clinical Notes in each chapter. Clinical problems requiring anatomic knowledge for their solution are presented at the end of each chapter. Illustrations are kept simple and overview drawings of the distribution of the cranial and autonomic nerves have been included.

There has been a recent explosion of public interest in less invasive facial rejuvenation products and treatments. At the forefront of this trend are botulinum toxin, or BOTOX®, injections and a wide array of dermal filler agents.

Cosmetic and Clinical Applications of BOTOX® and Dermal Fillers, Second Edition is an invaluable text that delves into this once guarded topic. Dr. William J. Lipham has updated this second edition to include new chapters, addressing important information for anyone interested in expanding their clinical practice in this area.

Topics inside the book include:
• Mechanism of action of BOTOX® as well as the facial muscle anatomy required for proper administration into appropriate muscle groups
• Storage and reconstitution of BOTOX® and Reloxin/Dysport®
• Functional disorders such as blepharospasm, Meige syndrome, hemifacial spasm, and strabismus
• Cosmetic applications for BOTOX®
• Cosmetic filler agents such as human collagen, hyaluronic acid, and poly-l-lactic acid

Features of the Second Edition:
• Use of 162 illustrations and photographs to convey a variety of injection techniques
• New chapter on the use of BOTOX® to decrease the severity and frequency of headache disorders such as migraine, tension-type headache, and chronic daily headache
• New chapter on how practitioners can market and integrate these services into their clinical practice
• Extensively updated chapter on the cosmetic applications of dermal filler agents, including recently FDA-approved compounds like Juvéderm™ and Perlane® as well as hyaluronic acid fillers that are awaiting FDA approval, including Restylane Fine Lines® and Puragen™.

Additionally, an accompanying DVD with over 60 minutes of supplemental video is included to demonstrate the techniques discussed.

DVD topics include BOTOX® treatment of:
• Forehead and frown lines
• Nasal “bunny” lines
• Chemical browlift
• Platysmal bands
• Blepharospasm
• Hemifacial spasm

The DVD also demonstrates the proper use of hyaluronic acid filler agents including:
• Restylane®
• Juvéderm Ultra™

Cosmetic and Clinical Applications of BOTOX® and Dermal Fillers, Second Edition is perfect for anyone interested in the use of BOTOX® and dermal filler agents for a wide variety of functional and minimally invasive facial rejuvenation procedures. General ophthalmologists, anterior segment surgeons, dermatologists, facial plastic surgeons, residents, and fellows alike will benefit from adding this valuable text and DVD to their collection.

Primary Care Optometry An ideal resource for anyone involved in eye care students, opticians, optometrists, and ophthalmologists this resource provides comprehensive coverage of the diagnosis and management of common eye and vision problems. Key topics include procedures for myopia control or reduction, as well as the co-management of refractive surgery and ocular disease. This book is also an excellent guide to detecting systemic diseases that can have an effect on the visual system.

Atlas of Primary Eyecare Procedures This clearly illustrated atlas offers straightforward, step-by-step descriptions of common eye procedures used regularly in primary eyecare.

Dr. Robert D'Amato, MD, PhD of Harvard Medical School,and recent winner of the Lew Wasserman award for his pioneering eye research, has teamed up with ARMD sufferer and writer Joan Snyder, to produce Macular Degeneration: The Latest Scientific Discoveries and Treatments for Preserving Your Sight. Endorsed by the Macular Degeneration Foundation, this easy-to-read large type edition is the only book written for laymen that covers all of the latest scientific discoveries and promising research for age-related macular degeneration. Learn more about Visudyne (photodynamic therapy), laser therapy, nutrition and drug therapy. Dr. D'Amato covers alternative or complimentaty therapies such as acupuncture, meditation, microcurrent stimulation and more. Promising medical research initiatives are discussed. Macular Degeneration offers hope and practical advice for the 13-15 million Americans suffering from this disease.

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