cover image - Clinical Medicine in Optometric Practice, 2nd Edition
ISBN: 9780323029612
Copyright: 2008
Publication Date: 10-24-2007
Page Count: 416
Imprint: Mosby
List Price: $131.00

Clinical Medicine in Optometric Practice, 2nd Edition

by Bruce Muchnick, OD

Hardcover

cover image - Clinical Medicine in Optometric Practice, 2nd Edition
ISBN: 9780323029612
Copyright: 2008
Publication Date: 10-24-2007
Page Count: 416
Imprint: Mosby
List Price: $131.00
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    • Shows how the wide range of medical conditions and their therapeutic strategies impact the delivery of eye care.
    • Familiarizes the reader with the conditions that are encountered in practice, those that may present with ocular manifestations, and those that have significant importance to medicine in general.
    • Organized in a practical, easily accessible format.
    • Uses case presentations to demonstrate clinical test interpretation, differential diagnosis, treatment, and the development of a prognosis.
    • Reflects the most current technologies in examination and testing.
    • Features all-new illustrations in full color, illustrating systemic disorders, the physical exam, videotaping, dermatological conditions, and much more.
    • Includes a new chapter on vascular disease, especially important since optometrists are sometimes the first to notice these types of changes.
    • Contains new information on cardiovascular disease and carotid disease, including the effects that stroke may have on the patient.
  • DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURES:

    1. The Physical Exam

    2. The Neurologic Exam

    3. Laboratory Medicine

    4. Radiology

    CLINICAL MEDICINE IN OPTOMETRIC PRACTICE:

    5. Cardiovascular Disease

    6. Cerebrovascular Disease

    7. Renal Disease

    8. Pulmonary Disease

    9. Thyroid-eye Disease

    10. Diabetes Mellitus

    11. Collagen-vascular Disease

    12. Gastrointestinal Disease

    13. Infectious Diseases

    14. Hematology and Oncology

    15. Handling In-office Medical Emergencies

    THE EYE IN SYSTEMIC DISEASE:

    16. The Anterior Segment in Systemic Disease (Uveitis)

    17. The Posterior Segment in Systemic Disease

    PHARMACOLOGY AND THE EYE

    Appendix i: Ocular Manifestations of Systemic Drugs

    Appendix ii: Systemic Manifestations of Ocular Drugs
  • Bruce Muchnick, OD, Chief of Optometry, Coatesville Veterans Administration Medical Center, Coatesville, PA
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