Overview
- Provides symptom based summarization of diseases in ocular emergency
- Facilitates the readers to make the most appropriate decision on urgent ocular cases
- Presents the most advanced understanding of Ocular Emergency by well-known doctors and professors
Part of the book series: Ocular Trauma (OCTRA)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Hua Yan is a professor and chairman at the Department of Ophthalmology and the president of Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, China. He is also the president of Chinese Ocular Trauma Society and vice president of Asian Pacific Ocular Trauma Society.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ocular Emergency
Editors: Hua Yan
Series Title: Ocular Trauma
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6802-7
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-6801-0Published: 16 February 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4949-2Published: 14 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-6802-7Published: 16 January 2018
Series ISSN: 2523-3157
Series E-ISSN: 2523-3165
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 241
Number of Illustrations: 75 b/w illustrations, 109 illustrations in colour
Topics: Ophthalmology, Emergency Medicine