Overview
An ideal resource for anyone involved in eye care — students, opticians, optometrists, and ophthalmologists — this resource provides comprehensive coverage of the diagnosis and management of common eye and vision problems. Key topics include procedures for myopia control or reduction, as well as the co-management of refractive surgery and ocular disease. This book is also an excellent guide to detecting systemic diseases that can have an effect on the visual system.
• Complete coverage of key optometric skills, including:
• how to take a comprehensive ocular and health history
• how to thoroughly investigate ocular health status
• how to perform a thorough refractive and binocular vision examination
• how to prescribe corrective lenses and/or vision therapy
• how to co-manage refractive surgery and ocular disease.
• Comprehensive discussions of the theory behind each optometric procedure.
• An emphasis on current non-surgical methods of myopia control and reduction, as well as methods of caring for patients with impaired vision.
• A logical organization, divided into three main parts: anomalies of refraction and binocular vision, optometric examination, and diagnosis and management.
• In-depth coverage of topics that include: objective refraction, subjective refraction, binocular vision examination, corneal topography measurement, ophthalmic lenses, geriatric optometry, vision impairment, control of myopia, and management of ocular diseases in a primary care optometric practice.
• An increased emphasis on changes in vision likely to occur in older patients, including age-related vision loss.
• Expanded coverage of hot topics in optometry, such as diabetes and macular degeneration.
• Four new chapters covering Hyperopia, Age-Related Vision Problems, Age-Related Vision Loss, and Care of the Vision-Impaired Patient.
• The user-friendly layout now features more tables, boxes, and illustrations to speed you to important information.
• A new full-color design offers a wealth of vivid illustrations that clearly depict important procedures, concepts, and techniques.
Synopsis
In an easy-to-understand style, Primary Care Optometry introduces "traditional optometry" to the optometry student. Dr. Grosvenor explains how to perform a comprehensive optometric examination, including assessment of ocular health, refractive status, and binocular vision status, and how to prescribe corrective lenses (etc) for patients' refractive errors and binocular vision anomalies. The fourth edition of Primary Care Optometry has been extensively updated in areas such as refractive surgery (including LASIK), myopia, low vision, and contact lenses. Incorporated is new information on diagnositic procedures and technology (such as the handheld tonometer).
Optometry and Vision Science
I recommend it highly to all members of the vision community.
Editorials
Reviewer: Brian Marshall, O.D.(Marshall Family Eye Care)
Description: This classic masterpiece, now in its fifth edition, consists of a synopsis of important examination skills and the theories related to them. This edition has been painstakingly updated and includes new sections and topics to make it more of a primary care book as the title suggests. The previous edition was published in 2002.
Purpose: This is a complete overview of all the techniques and procedures involved in providing comprehensive eye examinations. Theories and discussions of how the procedures work are also reviewed. This is a worthy but difficult goal for one book to accomplish, but the author has done an extraordinary job of compiling the latest information in optometric care.
Audience: The book is appropriately written for eye care practitioners, residents, and more advanced students. In fact, it should be required reading for all optometry students in their training. The author is a well known authority in the field.
Features: It begins with why vision problems exist, followed by how to examine or diagnose them, and finally by how to manage them. This sounds simple, but there are hundreds of vision anomalies. While this book could not possibly go into great depth on many of them, it does a good job of being inclusive. It uses great photographs and diagrams, many in color. While it covers newer technologies, too much information on older, useless technologies is still provided and can be distracting.
Assessment: This book offers a great primer on everything that is known on the subject of primary care of the optometric patient. It is written in an easy to use format that will allow students and busy practitioners to quickly access the information they need. There is no other single book available that can compare to this one with its wealth of information. This is a book that every optometry student and optometrist should have in the office.