Ocular Emergency
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat42861
Hua Yan, editor.
--Singapore:
Springer
, c2018.
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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 …
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- Other Authors
- Yan, Hua
- Responsibility
- Hua Yan, editor
- Place of Publication
- Singapore
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2018
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (vii, 241 p.) : 184 illus., 109 illus. in color
- Series Title
- Ocular Trauma
- ISBN
- 9789811068027
- 9789811068010 (print ed.)
- 9789811068034 (print ed.)
- ISSN
- 2523-3157
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Emergencies
- Eye Diseases
- Eye Injuries
- Specialty
- Emergency Medicine
- Ophthalmology
- Abstract
- 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.
- Contents
- 1. General Guideline of Ophthalmic Emergency -- 2. Emergency Room -- 3. Patient Care Process of Ocular Emergency -- 4. Acute Redness of the Eye -- 5. Acute Disturbance/Loss of Vision -- 6. Acute Visual Field Impairment Bo Huang -- 7. Acute pain in the eye -- 8. Open globe injuries -- 9. Chemical burn of the eye -- 10. Ocular adnexal injuries.
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- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Sports-related Eye Injuries
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat45304
Hua Yan, editor.
--Singapore:
Springer
, c2020.
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This book covers sports-related eye injuries, presenting standard processes to enable clinical practitioners to make appropriate decisions on the management of these patients. Sports-related activities are responsible for a large percentage of ocular injuries, particularly among young people, and can even lead to blindness. Given the increasing trend in these injuries and the potential functional loss they entail, it is important to understand how to prevent and to accurately diagnose and treat…
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- Other Authors
- Yan, Hua
- Responsibility
- Hua Yan, editor
- Place of Publication
- Singapore
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2020
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xiii, 152 p.) : 94 illus., 86 illus. in color
- Series
- Ocular Trauma
- Series Title
- Ocular trauma (Series)
- ISBN
- 9789811397417
- 9789811397400 (Print ed.)
- 9789811397424 (Print ed.)
- 9789811397431 (Print ed.)
- ISSN
- 2523-3157
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Athletic Injuries
- Eye Injuries
- Specialty
- Ophthalmology
- Sports Medicine
- Abstract
- This book covers sports-related eye injuries, presenting standard processes to enable clinical practitioners to make appropriate decisions on the management of these patients. Sports-related activities are responsible for a large percentage of ocular injuries, particularly among young people, and can even lead to blindness. Given the increasing trend in these injuries and the potential functional loss they entail, it is important to understand how to prevent and to accurately diagnose and treat them. This book discusses the definition, etiology, clinical presentations and signs, treatment, and prevention of sports-related eye injuries, and includes typical clinical cases, together with a wealth of images and illustrative figures. Offering a systematic and symptom-based guide to clinical practice, it will help clinical practitioners to fully prepare for the various challenges posed by sports-related eye injuries.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 2. Epidemics of Sports-related Eye Injuries -- 3. Risk Classification of Sports Events -- 4. Classification and Mechanism of Eye Injury -- 5. Sports-related Injuries of the Anterior Segment -- 6. Posterior Segment of Sports-related Eye Injuries -- 7. Ocular Adnexal of Sports-related Eye Injuries -- 8. Burns and Radiation Exposure -- 9. Prevention of Sports-related Eye Injuries -- 10. The Application of Protective Devices in Sports-related Eye Injuries -- 11. Guideliness of Return To Play -- 12. Sideline Evaluation of the Injured Player -- 13. Screening of Sports-related Eye Injuries -- 14. Controversial Issue.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
