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.

Autorentext

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.

Zusammenfassung

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.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: General Guideline of Ophthalmic Emergency (Hong Yan).- Chapter 2: Emergency Room (Haoyu Chen) .- Chapter 3: Patient Care Process of Ocular Emergency (Hua Yan).- Chapter 4: Acute Redness of the Eye (Bo Huang).- Chapter 5: Acute Disturbance/Loss of Vision (Gokhan Gurelik).- Chapter 6: Acute Visual Field Impairment (Bo Huang).- Chapter 7: Acute pain in the eye (Gungor Sobaci).- Chapter 8: Open globe injuries (Sengul Ozdek).- Chapter 9: Chemical burn of the eye (Weiyun Shi).- Chapter 10: Ocular adnexal injuries (Haoyu Chen).