A comprehensive guide to treating ocular injuries

Ocular Trauma: Principles and Practice is the first comprehensive clinical reference on ocular injuries in more than a decade. Each chapter gives you detailed instructions on evaluation, treatment, and management, including "what to do", "how to do it", and "why to do it." You'll also learn techniques for developing individualized treatment strategies for hard-to-identify injuries. The book begins with general terminology and classification of ocular trauma, and goes on to cover such topics as: the new role of endoscopy; eye restoration with complete iris loss; anterior chamber disorders; rehabilitation advances; medicolegal issues regarding the ophthalmologist as an expert witness; and much more! Insightful chapters written by patients offer their perspectives on the physical injuries and emotional trauma they have experienced.

Key features of Ocular Trauma:

• A systemic approach to eye management on a "tissue by tissue" basis, instead of the traditional anterior/posterior approach
• Practical, easy-to-use format, featuring more than 350 illustrations (156 in full color), pearls, pitfalls, bullets, and special considerations, ideal for daily practice
• An international panel of expert authors offering up-to-date global perspectives on management of ocular trauma
• Draws on the largest epidemiologic and clinical data collection available, The United States Eye Injury Registry
• Offers an important discussion of medicolegal issues facing ophthalmologists called as expert witnesses
• Provides a comprehensive list of common abbreviations and frequently used terms and more!

This reader-friendly book is a valuable addition to the professional library of every ophthalmologist, retina specialist, resident, and emergency room physician who deals with trauma patients. No other resource gives you such an abundance of information on assessment, emergency intervention, management, and rehabilitation. Make sure you have the best, state-of-the-art information as you treat patients who have suffered an ocular injury.

Section I: General Considerations
1. BETT: The Terminology of Ocular Trauma
2. Classification of Ocular Trauma
3. The OTS: Predicting the Final Vision of the Injured Eye
4. Eye Injury Epidemiology and Prevention of Ophthalmic Injuries
5. Counseling the Patient and the Family
6. Rehabilitation of Patients with Ocular Trauma
7. Medicolegal Issues
8. Designing the Management Strategy
9. Evaluation
Section II: Emergency Management
10. Management of Patients with Polytrauma
11. Chemical Injuries: Emergency Intervention
12. Nonglobe Injuries: Emergency (Room) Management
Section III: Mechanical Globe Injuries
13. Conjunctiva
14. Cornea
15. Sclera and Corneoscleral Injuries
16. Extrabulbar Tissue Prolapse
17. Anterior Chamber
18. Iris
19. Ciliary Body
20. Glaucoma
21. Lens
22. Choroid
23. Vitreous and Retina
24. Intraocular Foreign Bodies
25. Severe Combined Anterior and Posterior Segment Trauma
26. Management of Eyes with Perforating Injury
27. Injury to the Postsurgical Eye
28. Endophthalmitis
29. Sympathetic Ophthalmia
30. Unique Aspects of Trauma in Children
31. Evisceration and Enucleation
Section IV: Non-Mechanical Globe Injuries
32. Chemical Injuries: Clinical Course and Management
33. Ocular Manifestations of Nonophthalmic Conditions
34. Photic and Electrical Trauma
Section V: Nonglobe Injuries
35. Eyelid and Lacrimal System Trauma
36. Orbital Trauma
37. Optic Nerve and Visual Pathway
38. Ocular Motor System
Section VI: Appendices
Appendix 1. Instrumentation
Appendix 2. Endoscopy
Appendix 3. Basic Surgical Techniques in Anterior Segment
Appendix 4. Basic Surgical Techniques in Posterior Segment
Appendix 5. Pharmacology
Appendix 6. Myths and Truths about Eye Injuries: Answers to Commonly Asked Questions
Appendix 7. The Need for Standardization for Protective Eyewear in Sports