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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789267303321

Autore

Buratto Lucio

Titolo

Cataract surgery : introduction and preparation / / Lucio Buratto, Stephen F. Brint, Laura Sacchi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thorofare, New Jersey : , : Slack Incorporated, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

1-61711-994-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (152 p.)

Disciplina

617.742

Soggetti

Cataract - Surgery

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Dedication ""; ""Contents ""; ""Acknowledgments ""; ""About the Authors ""; ""Contributing Authors ""; ""Foreword ""; ""Introduction ""; ""Part I""; ""Microscopes""; ""Surgical Instruments""; ""Patient Selection""; ""Eye Examination and Presurgery Examination""; ""Hardness of the Nucleus""; ""The Pupil""; ""Anesthesia""; ""Preparation of the Patient and the Operating Field""; ""Incisions""; ""Viscoelastic Substances""; ""Capsulorrhexis""; ""Hydrodissection""; ""Intraocular Fluids""; ""Refractive Cataract Surgery""; ""Prevention of Endophthalmitis""; ""Part II""

""Ophthalmic Viscosurgical Devices for Modern Cataract Surgery""""Cataract Surgery Incisions""; ""Recommended Reading""; ""Financial Disclosures ""

Sommario/riassunto

"Cataract Surgery: Introduction and Preparation offer the latest information and examines the most popular instruments used, the preoperative examination, and the operating technique for cataract surgery. Dr. Lucio Buratto, Dr. Stephen Brint, and Dr. Laura Sacchi provide a step-by-step approach to facilitate assessing the patient, performing the technique, and managing cataract surgery in the most optimal way possible. Cataract Surgery: Introduction and Preparation will lead beginning surgeons down the exciting path of cataract surgery as they increase their knowledge of phacoemulsification and the femtolaser by learning all the details associated with the procedures. Cataract Surgery: Introduction and Preparation covers a wide variety of



topics, including presurgery examination, incisions, capsulorhexis, hydrodissection, prevention of endophthalmitis, and ophthalmic viscosurgical devices for modern cataract surgery. Supplemented by more than 200 color illustrations, diagrams, a glossary, and references, all surgeons from beginner to expert will want this unique resource by their side"--Provided by publisher.