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LASIK: A Handbook for Optometrists (Paperback)

January 6th, 2010

LASIK: A Handbook for Optometrists

Book Description

The optometrist’s guide to all aspects of the client’s LASIK journey!

Product Description

Intensely practical and highly accessible, this essential handbook provides a key reference for any optometrist needing to give objective information to patients considering laser eye surgery. It follows a typical patient journey through the LASIK procedure and covers the normal outcomes as well as any complications. All aspects of the optometrist’s role are covered, from pre-selection, referral and data collection through to counselling, procedures and aftercare. If you want to give your patients an informed opinion about refractive surgery or are co-managing LASIK patients, you cannot be without this information. so that you can find the information instantly and at a glance when you are working in a busy clinic * Very synoptic but wide ranging in its contents from pre-selection through to post-operative management and referrals. * An essential (more…)

LASIK Complications: Trends and Techniques (Paperback)

January 5th, 2010

LASIK Complications: Trends and Techniques

Product Description

Look to the authority on LASIK complications for the latest developments involving this corrective procedure. LASIK Complications: Trends and Techniques, Third Edition thoroughly reviews preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative complications and the management of these complications. As with previous editions, LASIK Complications maintains the concise and practical format that makes it invaluable for the office and operating suite. By utilizing this approach, Drs. Howard V. Gimbel and Ellen E. Anderson Penno clearly explain the most popular surgical procedures available to LASIK surgeons and successful strategies used by expert surgeons. Informative tables and a comprehensive index are provided for easy navigation and understanding of various complications. New to this third edition are the popular topics of wavefront mapping, custom ablation, LASEK, and ultrafast lasers in refractive surgery. Articles from experts complement information on (more…)

Physiology of the Eye

January 4th, 2010

Physiology of the Eye

Product Description

The heart of this program is an animated journey through the eye–you fly into the cornea, around the lens, through the vitreous, and deep into the layers of the retina.

Interactive QuickTime VR panoramas allow users to explore each part of the eye as if they were inside.

Detailed movies illustrate the function of the various eye components and the complexity of the retina.

Sounds of muffled heartbeats, aqueous fluids, and neural activity effectively transport you into the eye.

The 6 Modules:
Anatomy: 8 interactive diagrams of the eye and brain with definitions.

Physiology: An animated 3-D tour of the eye examines major and minor ocular structures, tissues, and their relationships. A detailed examination of phototransduction, neurotransmitters and synapses in the retina.

Eye Conditions: 23 common eye conditions and diseases are described and illustrated. Basic vision tests are included.

Eye Development: a timeline from embryonic stages to (more…)

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Step by Step LASIK Surgery (Kindle Edition)

January 3rd, 2010

Step by Step LASIK Surgery

Product Description

The simple step-by-step approach chosen by the editors is very different to the existing titles available, in that the necessary basics of laser in situ keratectomy (LASIK) are discussed in detail for the neophyte. Many other excellent books exist for those with experience, yet there is a lack of publications for those just beginning to work with LASIK. Experts from around the world have contributed their practical experience so as to aid the readers of this book. The width and diversity of LASIK applications is vast, yet the apposite conciseness of this text provides all ophthalmologists with a good start in refractive surgery.

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Cocoons Live Eyewear Sunglasses Mini Slim (Medium-Small) Sand Frame with Polarized Amber Lenses C415A

January 2nd, 2010

Cocoons Live Eyewear Sunglasses Mini Slim (Medium-Small) Sand Frame with Polarized Amber Lenses C415A

Product Description

The Mini Slim (Medium-Small) frame is designed to fit over small to medium prescription eyewear shapes, to fit over frames not exceeding 4 7/8 x 1 3/8 inches.

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LASIK: A Guide to Laser Vision Correction (Paperback)

January 1st, 2010

LASIK: A Guide to Laser Vision Correction

From Booklist

LASIK (Laser In Situ Keratomileusis) has become such a popular and overhyped procedure that prospective patients need the understandable account of the process that this small book provides. Its three well-trained and experienced authors begin with the anatomy and physiology of the eye and the meanings of those cryptic numbers on a prescription for glasses. After summarizing LASIK’s history, they discuss what conditions make one a good candidate for it and the qualifications a prospective patient should seek in a LASIK surgeon. Those include training, experience, and using eye-tracking and other up-to-date procedures and equipment. Reports from patients who have undergone LASIK can be helpful, they say, but information on the Internet is much less valuable and may be misleading. They describe the operation proper and postoperative processes in detail, look closely at risks and possible complications, and conclude with lists of further informational resourc (more…)