Clinical Ophthalmology Diagnosis and Management: Second Edition

This ophthalmology textbook is intended for use by all individuals involved in the routine care of eye disease patients, especially eye care professionals [e.g., ophthalmologists (Eye MDs) and optometrists] who will be completing written and oral board examinations. This book has been written in such a way to provide rapid, succinct, and convenient indexed information on current concepts of eye disease therapy (e.g., clinical pearls, etiology, differential diagnosis, diagnostic work-up, and treatment summaries). Ophthalmic drug names, dosages, dosing frequency information, and drug classification information for routine eye medications used by eye care specialists, family practitioners, ear, nose, and throat specialists, and other medical sub-specialties are also included in this work. Various medical specialists may use this reference to better understand eye disease therapy and ocular drug doses, actions, side effects, and potential drug interactions with systemic medications and systemic disease processes involving their patients. Familiarity with this book will, thus, optimize eye disease therapy of patients by eye care professionals and non-eye care medical professionals alike, creating a mutual understanding of ocular manifestations (e.g., “Clinical Pearls”) of systemic diseases, etiology, differential diagnosis, work-up and a “Treatment Summary” for each eye condition or disease. The information in this book should serve as a valuable tool for allied eye care professionals such as ocular technicians, opticians, and other office practice personnel who are involved in screening patients with eye disease, ordering or stocking eye medications, and requesting subspecialist eye examinations. A quick reference list (common eye conditions/diseases) and a table of contents are both present in the front section of this book and a comprehensive alphabetical index is provided at the back of this book. The layout of this text was designed to facilitate quick and easy access to clinical diagnostic pearls, disease-specific work-ups, differential diagnosis lists, eye disease treatment summaries, and detailed ophthalmic drug therapy dosing and frequency information, as well as drug interaction and drug contraindications information. This book is the result of an intense desire to provide eye care professionals, non-eye care health professionals, and allied health workers with a comprehensive “one-reference, go-to” eye disease therapy information source/reference/professional board examination review whose size is negotiable and whose content is comprehensive yet concise and attainable in a glance. No single text to date provides what I believe is unique about this publication: manageable size, concise yet comprehensive therapeutic information, and a unique new multi-layered cross-referencing format that facilitates ease of use and looking up pertinent information in a very short time period. This format incorporates multiple opportunities for cross-referencing eye disease therapy protocols, drug dosing information, and other diagnostic and therapeutic protocols by anatomic location, disease category, ophthalmologic sub-specialty, drug name (trade or generic), or by the route/site of the drug delivery to the body (topical, oral, IV, SCJ, ITV) in the table of contents, appendices, and a comprehensive index which provides further multi-layered referencing in an easy-to-use, alphabetical format. Prescribing healthcare professionals should be familiar with the mechanism of action of drugs prescribed, potential drug interactions, side effects (adverse effects), and any relative or absolute contraindications for prescribing certain drugs to particular patients of differing ages and health statuses. Enjoy the rapid access to the concise therapeutic information and clinical board review content this book provides due to its unique design. May it serve you and, most importantly, your patients well.