Short description:

Basic knowledge: Safe Surgery in Ophthalmology

In preparation for a beginner ophthalmologist?s first surgical procedures, this book provides numerous tips and recommendations. These are useful for the trainee ophthalmologist as well as for the surgical assistant preparing for the procedure. This practical book consolidates the experience of seasoned colleagues and is a must-have for beginners who want to successfully master their first surgical interventions on the eye.

Contents include the following:

• Surgical planning, preparation and anesthesia


• Suturing techniques and materials


• Introductory knowledge regarding equipment


• Incision techniques and the respective surgical procedure


• Eyelid surgery


• Intraocular lenses and substances used intraocularly


• Medication administered intraocularly


• Management of complications

To help understand the book?s contents, instructional schematic drawings illustrate each surgical step and approach. Particularly helpful are the many tips from experienced surgeons and advice on how to avoid dangerous situations.

The book is ideal for all ophthalmology residents and beginner surgeons, as well as surgical assistants preparing for their first ophthalmic surgery.



The Editor

Professor Dr. med. Frank Wilhelm is an ophthalmologist living in Greifswald, Germany. He works as a surgeon and trains young colleagues. For many years he has been sharing his experience of the basics of ophthalmic surgery with colleagues in the form of courses.

The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence. A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content.

This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.

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Long description:

An extremely helpful textbook for eye surgery

For the first surgical procedures in ophthalmic surgery, this book provides numerous tips and recommendations for the trainee ophthalmologist. This unique practical book consolidates the experience of seasoned practitioners and is a must-have for the successful execution of the first operations on the eye.

The necessary steps in surgical planning, local anesthesia, suturing techniques and materials, incision techniques, and the respective surgical procedure are presented.

The surgical textbook is characterized by numerous illustrations. Instructional schematic drawings illustrate each surgical step and approach. It includes many tips from experienced surgeons?also to avoid pitfalls.

 

The book is ideal for all ophthalmology residents and beginner surgeons, as well as surgical assistants preparing for their first ophthalmic surgery.

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Table of Contents:

1. Introduction.- 2. Topographical and Clinical Anatomy for Ophthalmic Surgeons.- 3. Asepsis and Antisepsis in Eye Surgery.- 4. Equipment Knowledge: "What Must a Surgeon Know?".- 5. Instrumentation.- 6. Suture Materials.- 7. Preparation as a Surgeon.- 8. Patient Preparation in the Operating Department.- 9. Anesthesia in Ophthalmology.- 10. Intraocular Lenses - An Overview.- 11. Intraocular Fluids and Medications.- 12. Basics of Suturing and Knots in Ophthalmic Surgery.- 13. Incision Techniques in Ophthalmic Surgery.- 14. Minor Lid and Tear Duct Surgery.- 15. Procedures on the Conjunctiva and Cornea.- 16. Enucleation.- 17. Iridectomy.- 18. Medication Administration into the Vitreous Body.- 19. Emergency Vitrectomy for Beginners in Endophthalmitis - The Core Vitrectomy.- 20. My First Phaco - How Do I Prepare?.- 21. The First Operations Are Completed; What?s Next? Complication Management - Integrating New Knowledge into the Surgical Process - Observerships - Operating Abroad.

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