Book Description
The popular optics review manual, Last-Minute Optics: A Concise Review of Optics, Refraction, and Contact Lenses, has been revised and updated into a Second Edition. This unique resource boils down the overwhelming subject matter of clinical optics and refraction, helping the ophthalmologist cover the essentials in a single review manual. The content is based upon the practical experience of two clinically active experts who lecture on ophthalmic optics around the world.
This updated Second Edition by Drs. David G. Hunter and Constance E. West includes new questions added to selected chapters and a new chapter covering refractive surgery, as well as a key chapter that helps you evaluate patients with symptoms related directly to optical or refractive concerns. The complex concepts of optics are revealed in easy-to-understand explanations enhanced by simple illustrations.
Last-Minute Optics, Second Edition allows you to test your knowledge while increasing your understanding of optics. Designed in a clear, concise, question-and-answer format, this book allows for self-assessment and a chance to test your understanding before you read the answer.
Features of the Second Edition:
• Written in a light and approachable style to make optics accessible and understandable
• Unique question-and-answer format allows for self-assessment while studying to identify areas where more work is needed
• Perfect for limited study time
• Includes real-life examples that are clinically relevant
• Numerous practical tips to help enhance clinical practice
• Includes 223 questions and answers
Whether you’re an ophthalmologist, ophthalmic technician, resident or student, reviewing the optics facts and concepts is easier with Last-Minute Optics: A Concise Review of Optics, Refraction, and Contact Lenses, Second Edition.
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Contents
Dedication
Figure List
Table List
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Introduction to the First Edition
Introduction to the Second Edition
Section 1. Basic Principles
Section 2. Vergence, Lenses, Objects, and Images
Section 3. The Model Eye
Section 4. Visual Acuity Testing
Section 5. Refraction and Optical Dispensing
Section 6. Lens Effectivity and Vertex Distance
Section 7. Accommodation, Presbyopia, and Bifocals
Section 8. Astigmatism
Section 9. Aberrations, Distortions, and Irregularities
Section 10. Contact Lenses
Section 11. Intraocular Lenses
Section 12. Refractive Surgery
Section 13. Magnification and Telescopes
Section 14. Low Vision
Section 15. Mirrors
Section 16. Prisms and Diplopia
Section 17. Instruments
Section 18. Good People, Bad Optics: The Dissatisfied Patient
Section 19. Important Formulas
Index
About the Editors
Constance E. West, MD graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a degree in chemical engineering. Dr. West then received her MD from the University of Massachusetts Medical School. She completed a residency in ophthalmology at Washington University and a fellowship in pediatric ophthalmology at the Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute. She is Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Cincinnati and Director of the Division of Ophthalmology and the Abrahamson Pediatric Eye Institute at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her clinical practice is devoted to pediatric ophthalmology and adult strabismus.