Ophthalmic care of the combat casualty / specialty editor, Allen B. Thach.

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

Thach, Allen B.

United States. Department of the Army. Office of the Surgeon General

Series:

Textbooks of military medicine

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eye--Wounds and injuries--Treatment.

Eye.

Battle casualties.

Medicine, Military.

Eye Injuries--therapy.

Eye Injuries--history.

Military Medicine.

Medical Subjects:

Eye Injuries--therapy.

Eye Injuries--history.

Military Medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 470, xxiii pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)

Other Title:

Ophthalmic care

Place of Publication:

Falls Church, Va. : Office of the Surgeon General, United States Army ... [et al.], 2003.

Contents:

Machine derived contents note: Contributors

Foreword by The Surgeon General

Introduction

Section 1: History

1. History of Military Eye Care

Floyd L. Wergeland, Jr

2. Lessons Learned

Francis G. La Piana and Thomas Mader

Section 2: Basic Techniques

3. Ocular Trauma: History and Examination

Matthew J. Nutaitis

4. Imaging of Ocular and Adnexal Trauma

Jeffrey P. Blice

5. Anesthetic Care of the Traumatized Eye

Andrew S. Eiseman

6. Ocular Trauma Scales

Darryl J. Ainbinder, Robert A. Mazzoli, William R. Raymond IV,

Elizabeth A. Hansen, and E. Glenn Sanford

Section 3: Anterior Segment

7. Chemical Injuries of the Eye

Edward W. Trudo, Jr, and William Rimm

8. Blunt Trauma and Nonpenetrating Injuries of the Anterior Segment

Glenn C. Cockerham

9. Sharp Trauma of the Anterior Segment

Kraig S. Bower

10. Trauma of the Crystalline Lens

Joseph Pasternak

11. Glaucoma Associated With Ocular Trauma

Neil T. Choplin

Section 4: Posterior Segment

12. Blunt Injury of the Posterior Segment

David O. Mazur

13. Primary Repair of the Posterior Segment: Penetrating, Perforating, and

Blunt Rupture Injuries

Gordon A. Byrnes

14. Management of Penetrating Injuries With a Retained Intraocular

Foreign Body

Wendall C. Bauman

15. Metallosis Bulbi

Peter H. Custis and Tim B. Hopkins

16. Sympathetic Ophthalmia

Thomas P. Ward

17. Posttraumatic Endophthalmitis

Craig D. Hartranft and Thaddeus J. Krolicki

Section 5: Oculoplastics

18. Eyelid and Adnexal Injuries

Kimberly Peele Cockerham

19. Management of Eyelid Burns

John D. Ng and David E.E. Holck

20. Orbital Trauma

Robert A. Mazzoli, Darryl J. Ainbinder, and Elizabeth A. Hansen

21. Extraocular Muscle Trauma

Scott K. McClatchey

22. Traumatic Optic Neuropathy

23. Enucleation and Evisceration

Asa D. Morton

Section 6: Miscellaneous

24. Eye Injuries Associated With Terrorist Bombings

Allen B. Thach

25. Ocular Laser Injuries

Rodney D. Hollifield

26. The Development of Eye Armor for the American Infantryman

Francis G. La Piana and Thomas P. Ward

27. Geographical Ophthalmology

Richard D. Stutzman

Abbreviations and Acronyms

Index.

Notes:

Title from PDF title screen (viewed on May 22, 2009).

"January 2003."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Ophthalmic care of the combat casualty

OCLC:

341768103