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By
William Harvey, MCOptom, Visiting Clinician and Boots Opticians' Tutor Practitioner, Fight for Sight Optometry Clinic, City University, London, UK; Clinical
Editor, Optician, Reed Business Information, Sutton, UK; Examiner, College of Optometrists, London, UK
Bernard Gilmartin, PhD, BSc, FBCO, FAAO, Editor, Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics
Description
This comprehensive book provides clear discussions of the essential information needed for this rewarding yet challenging area of optometric
practice. Following the success of other books in this series, and compiled by a range of experts in the field, Paediatric Optometry
is an essential purchase for anyone who has a role in assessing, maintaining, and caring for children's vision.
Audience
- Optometrists
- Dispensing Opticians
- Orthoptists
- Paediatric Ophthalmologists
- Manufacturers of children's
spectacle frames and lenses and perhaps some contact lens companies
- Level: student + PQE /postgraduate / practitioner
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Contributors' list
1 The development of vision
2 Ocular dysfunction and disease in childhood: terminology
and epidemiology
3 Assessment of visual acuity
4 Refractive examination
5 Myopia: progression and management
6 Binocular
vision disorders: aetiology, pathophysiology and clinical characteristics
7 Binocular vision disorders: clinical investigation, diagnosis
and management
8 Paediatric eye disorders: genetics
9 Paediatric eye disorders: cataract, retinopathy and visual dysfunction
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Paediatric eye disorders: congenital and neuromuscular conditions
11 Spectacle dispensing for children
12 Paediatric contact lenses
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Low vision assessment
14 Vision screening
15 Paediatric communication
Index
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Paperback, 176 pages, publication date: MAY-2004
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-8792-8
ISBN-10: 0-7506-8792-4
Imprint: BUTTERWORTH HEINEMANN
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