Ophthalmic Drug Therapy, Clinical Ophthalmology: Second Edition

Ophthalmic Drug Therapy, Clinical Ophthalmology Second Edition A masterpiece ophthalmology (eye disease diagnosis and treatment) textbook written to guide 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 textbook provides rapid, succinct, indexed information on current concepts of eye disease therapy (e.g., ophthalmic drug names, available preparations, dosages, dosing frequency, and drug classification information for routine eye medications used by eye care specialists, family practitioners, and other medical sub-specialties who often treat patients for various uncomplicated eye conditions (e.g., mild conjunctivitis or small/uncomplicated corneal abrasions). The owner of this book will be educated and enlightened about eye disease therapy and ocular drug doses, actions, side effects, and potential drug interactions with systemic medications and systemic disease processes involving their patients, optimizing the eye disease therapy of patients by eye care professionals and non-eye care medical professionals alike by creating a mutual understanding of current concepts of eye disease therapy (e.g., ophthalmic drug names, available preparations, dosages, dosing frequency, and drug classification information for routine eye medications. A quick reference list (common eye conditions/diseases) and a table of contents are both present in the front section of this book. The layout of this textbook allows quick and easy access to 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, and professional board examination review book whose size is negotiable and whose content is comprehensive yet concise and attainable in a glance. No single text to date provides what the author believes is unique about this publication: manageable size, concise yet comprehensive therapeutic information, and a unique cross-referencing format that facilitates ease of use and looking up pertinent information in a very short time. This format incorporates multiple opportunities for cross-referencing eye disease therapy protocols, drug dosing information, and other therapeutic protocols by anatomic location, disease category, ophthalmologic subspecialty, drug name (trade or generic), or by the route and site of drug delivery to the body (topical, oral, IV, SCJ, ITV) in the table of contents and appendices which provide rapid access to eye disease manifestations, signs and symptoms, detailed ocular medication treatment options, including different routes of medication administration, and contraindications. Prescribing healthcare professionals should be familiar with the mechanism of action of the drugs they are prescribing as well as potential drug interactions, side effects or adverse effects, and any relative or absolute contraindications for prescribing certain drugs in particular patients of different ages and differing health status. The prescribing healthcare professional should always contemplate individual patient characteristics and the suitability of a particular drug, dosage, or dosing frequency, above and beyond the content and scope of this text. Enjoy the rapid, therapeutic information and clinical board review content this book provides due to its unique creation format and design. May it serve you and, most importantly, your patients well, improving, maximizing, and maintaining all patients’ zenith eye health now, and long into the future!