Visual Fields


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Eye Essentials is a new series of texts which provides authoritative and accessible information for all eye care professionals, whether in training or in practice. Each pocket guide is both a rapid review tool for students and a handy clinical reference guide for practitioners. With features such as tables, key bullet points, clinical pearls, practice pitfalls, summaries, action icons and stunning full color illustrations, this series has rapidly established itself as an excellent source of essential information for today's readers. Practical guidance that is evidence basedFull-color illustrations clarify key informationHighlighted advice sections for patients and handy tables throughoutAuthoritative guidance on visual fields from a respected leader in the fieldProvides essential information in one convenient review source




Visual Fields via the Visual Pathway


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This textbook is a dynamic exploration of the relationship between the visual pathway and visual field impairments. Aimed at the practitioner or student of visual fields, the clinical focus of the book is oriented towards differential diagnosis and will assist the reader in identifying the site of a lesion. The emphasis is on detection and interpretation of visual field defects, rather than the background and psychophysics of visual field assessment. Discussion of the normal visual field is included for comparative purposes. The structure of the book traces the visual pathway anatomically from front to back, and is supplemented by information on methodology and programme choice.




Visual Fields


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Visual Fields: Examination and Interpretation, 3rd edition contains revisions and updates of earlier material as well as a discussion of newer techniques for assessing visual field disorders. The book begins with a short history of the field of perimetry and goes on to present basic clinical aspects of examination and diagnosis of visual field defects in the optic nerve, optic disc, chorioretina, optic chiasm, optic tract, lateral geniculate field bodies, and the calcarine complex. Additional aspects of visual field examination are explored including those of monocular, binocular, and junctional field defects, congruity vs. incongruity, macular sparing vs. macular splitting, density, wedge-shaped homonymous field loss, and monocular temporal crescent. Various new techniques of automated perimetry are also considered including SITA, FASTPAC, and SWAP. This volume provides a very useful overview of the techniques of visual field examination in a number of eye disorders and will be of interest to all ophthalmologists, neuro-opthalmologists, retina specialists, and optometrists.




Visual Fields


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Visual Fields, by Neil T. Choplin, MD and Russell P. Edwards, MD, discusses the anatomic basis for visual field defects, reviews the methods for testing problems in the visual fields, and gives guidelines for interpretation.




Visual Impairments


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When children and adults apply for disability benefits and claim that a visual impairment has limited their ability to function, the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) is required to determine their eligibility. To ensure that these determinations are made fairly and consistently, SSA has developed criteria for eligibility and a process for assessing each claimant against the criteria. Visual Impairments: Determining Eligibility for Social Security Benefits examines SSA's methods of determining disability for people with visual impairments, recommends changes that could be made now to improve the process and the outcomes, and identifies research needed to develop improved methods for the future. The report assesses tests of visual function, including visual acuity and visual fields whether visual impairments could be measured directly through visual task performance or other means of assessing disability. These other means include job analysis databases, which include information on the importance of vision to job tasks or skills, and measures of health-related quality of life, which take a person-centered approach to assessing visual function testing of infants and children, which differs in important ways from standard adult tests.




The Pediatric Eye Exam Quick Reference Guide: Office and Emergency Room Procedures


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There is a need for comprehensive books that provide crucial information in a clear and direct manner, particularly in the medical field. Currently, there are limited resources available to students and clinicians that provide step-by-step procedures with pictures on how to examine the eye in the pediatric population. The Pediatric Eye Exam Quick Reference Guide: Office and Emergency Room Procedures is a clinical procedure book to provide step-by-step pediatric eye care examination techniques and is an important addition to the field of eye care. The chapters are written by leading pediatric optometrists and ophthalmologists in the field. Years of academic and clinical experiences from schools of optometry, hospital-based eye care, and private practice are all presented in a user-friendly format with clinical pearls and insights that will help any clinician perform a pediatric eye exam easily and efficiently. Covering a range of critical topics such as pupil examination, visual field testing, refraction, and ocular emergencies and providing pictures, it is ideal for all students, residents, academicians, trainers, and novel and seasoned clinicians who are interested in learning how to examine a pediatric patient and staying on top of the latest pediatric eye care procedures.




Manual of Visual Fields


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An introductory text on the interpretation of automated and manual visual fields. This text dicusses the history and principles of manual perimetry, details modern techniques of visual field testing and describes visual field changes resulting from ophthalmic diseases.




Visual Field Testing with the Humphrey Field Analyzer


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An introduction by ophthalmologists to the use of the Humphrey Field Analyzer (both older and newer models) in automated perimetry. After discussing the principles of the computer measurement of peripheral vision fields, hardware methodologies and software interpretations are detailed. Finally, specific classes of visual field defects such as glaucoma, neuro-ophthalmology, and miscellaneous conditions are explored. Throughout are numerous pictures of Humphrey printouts which provide examples of perimetry test results for both healthy and diseased eyes. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR




Atlas of Visual Fields


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This atlas is a pictorial guide to the interpretation of automated vision fields. It presents more than 300 vision fields from actual patients that illustrate key points in analyzing visual fields. Each field is accompanied by a brief clinical history, interpretation, and explanation. By looking at the fields and reading the text, the reader should develop a systematic approach to analyzing automated fields and should develop pattern recognition for most fields encountered in clinical practice.




The Visual Fields


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