Product Description

The Basic Bookshelf for Eyecare Professionals is a series that provides fundamental and advanced material with a clinical approach to clinicians and students. A special effort was made to include information needed for the certification exams in ophthalmic and optometric assisting, as well as for surgical assistants, opticians, plus low vision, and contact lens examiners.

The ability to recognize abnormalities is an important part of optometric and ophthalmic assisting. This book describes disorders of the skin and lids, orbit, lacrimal apparatus, cornea, lens, vitreous, retina, and optic nerve. A generous number of photographs enhance the material to help you learn what you are seeing in the exam room.

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Contents

Dedication
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Introductions
The Study Icons

Chapter 1: Skin and Eyelids
Chapter 2: Lacrimal Apparatus and Orbit
Chapter 3: Conjunctiva and Sclera
Chapter 4: Cornea
Chapter 5: Glaucoma Overview
Chapter 6: Uveal Tract, Pupil, and Anterior Chamber
Chapter 7: Crystalline Lens Overview
Chapter 8: Vitreous and Retina
Chapter 9: Optic Nerve
Chapter 10: Neurological Conditions
Bibliography
Index

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Review

"Overview of Ocular Disorders by Nancy Gwin is one of the many excellent books in The Basic Bookshelf for Eyecare Professionals that has been published by SLACK Incorporated."

— Rochelle Caviness, Large Print Reviews

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About the Author

Nancy Thomas Gwin, COT, FCLSA

Nancy Thomas Gwin began working in ophthalmology in 1971 for Premier Medical Eye Group, Mobile, Alabama, where she is not Director of Contact Lens Services. In addition to her duties as director, she fits specialty contact lenses.

Ms. Gwin is NCLE Certified as well as a Certified Ophthalmic Technician (COT). She is a Fellow in the Contact Lens Society of America, serving on their Board of Directors as editor of their quarterly publication, the EyeWitness. She is also a member of Contact Lens Association of Ophthalmologists (CLAO) and the Opticians Associations of America (OAA).

Her passions are challenging contact lens fits and traveling.

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