Cataract Surgery - Introduction and Preparation

Offers the latest information and examines the most popular instruments used, the preoperative examination, and the operating technique for cataract surgery. The authors provide a step-by-step approach to facilitate assessing the patient, performing the technique, and managing cataract surgery in the most optimal way possible.

List of contents

Foreword Introduction Part I Chapter 1 Microscopes Chapter 2 Surgical Instruments Chapter 3 Patient Selection Chapter 4 Eye Examination and Presurgery Examination Chapter 5 Hardness of the Nucleus Chapter 6 The Pupil. Chapter 7 Anesthesia Chapter 8 Preparation of the Patient and the Operating Field Chapter 9 Incisions Chapter 10 Viscoelastic Substances Chapter 11 Capsulorrhexis Chapter 12 Hydrodissection Chapter 13 Intraocular Fluids Chapter 14 Refractive Cataract Surgery Chapter 15 Prevention of Endophthalmitis Part II Chapter 16 Ophthalmic Viscosurgical Devices for Modern Cataract Surgery Chapter 17 Cataract Surgery Incisions Recommended Reading Financial Disclosures Index

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Brint, Lucio Buratto, Lucio Brint Buratto, Buratto Lucio, Laura Sacchi, Sacchi Laura
• Publisher: Slack Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2014
• EAN: 9781617116056
• ISBN: 978-1-61711-605-6
• No. of pages: 152
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; MEDICAL / Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology