This volume provides students and practitioners with up-to-date information on the management of refractive and binocular vision anomalies. It highlights recent findings concerning risk for the development of myopia, and discusses methods for controlling it. This edition covers new examination procedures of visual field assessment, such as electronic imaging methods, for evaluating the retina and optic nerve. It presents the traditional basics of refracting and examining the eye with many updates in findings, procedures and lenses that have occured since the 2nd edition in 1988.
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978-0-7506-9733-0 (9780750697330)
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Anomalies of refraction; epidemiology of ametropia; myopia; anomalies of binocular vision; the patient history; the preliminary examination; the ocular health examination; objective refraction; subjective refraction; the binocular vision examination; corneal topography measurement; management of anomalies of refraction and binocular vision; ophthalmic lenses; contact lenses; optical aids for low vision; refractive surgery; primary care and the management of ocular disease. Appendices: problem-oriented optometric records; American National Standards Institute prescription requirements; contact lens tables; answers to study questions.
