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The Ophthalmic Assistant

A Text for Allied and Associated Ophthalmic Personnel

Ninth Edition

Harold A Stein, MD MSc (Ophth) DOMS (London) FRCSC

Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Attending Ophthalmologist and Past Chairman, Department of Ophthalmology, Scarborough General Hospital, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada

Attending Ophthalmologist, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Past Secretary General, International Contact Lens Society of Ophthalmologists, Denver, Colorado

Past President, Joint Commission on Allied Health Personnel in Ophthalmology, St Paul, Minnesota

Past President, Contact Lens Association of Ophthalmologists, New Orleans, Louisiana

Past President, Canadian Ophthalmological Society, Ottawa, Canada

Director, Professional Continuing Education, Centennial College of Applied Arts, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Co-Director, Maxwell K Bochner Eye Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Raymond M Stein, MD FRCSC

Chief, Department of Ophthalmology, Scarborough General Hospital, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada

Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Attending Ophthalmologist, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Past President, Canadian Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Past Commissioner, Joint Commission on Allied Health Personnel in Ophthalmology, St Paul, Minnesota

Co-director, Maxwell K Bochner Eye Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Editor, Clinical and Surgical Ophthalmology, Medicopea, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Melvin I Freeman, MD FACS

Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology, Emeritus, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington

Affiliate Clinical Investigator, Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason, Seattle, Washington

Past Head, Section of Ophthalmology, Virginia Mason Clinic and Medical Center, Seattle, Washington

Medical Director, Emeritus, Department of Continuing Medical Education, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, Washington

Former Vice President, International Contact Lens Council, Osaka, Japan

Past President, Alliance for Continuing Medical Education, Birmingham, Alabama

Past President, Contact Lens Association of Ophthalmologists, New Orleans, Louisiana

Past President, Joint Commission on Allied Health Personnel in Ophthalmology, St Paul, Minnesota

Chair, Joint Commission on Allied Health Personnel in Ophthalmology Education and Research Foundation, St Paul, Minnesota, USA

Saunders

Table of Contents

Copyright

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First edition 1968

Second edition 1971

Third edition 1976

Fourth edition 1983

Fifth edition 1988

Sixth edition 1994

Seventh edition 2000

Eighth edition 2006

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Stein, Harold A. (Harold Aaron), 1929

The ophthalmic assistant. 9th edn

1. Ophthalmic assistants. 2. Ophthalmology. 3. Eye Diseases.

I. Title II. Stein, Raymond M. III. Freeman, Melvin I.

617.7 dc23

ISBN-13: 9781455710690

E-book ISBN: 9781455733460

Printed in China

Last digit is the print number: 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Foreword to the eighth edition

The Ophthalmic Assistant, first published in 1968, has become the classic text for ophthalmic assistants and associated personnel over the past 44 years. The material presented is a mini-textbook of ophthalmology and eye care covering basic sciences, new testing procedures, new equipment, and the involvement of associated allied health personnel in the community.

In this ninth edition, Harold Stein and Raymond Stein of Toronto, Canada, are again joined by Melvin Freeman, of Seattle, Washington. This text is well illustrated and written in a style that is easy to read and understand. Associated personnel can learn comfortably and easily. The Ophthalmic Assistant contains basic information on everything from testing vision and glaucoma to common surgical procedures, both minor and major, with an emphasis throughout on technical considerations. Refractive surgery is given special emphasis and the newer diagnostic modalities of ocular imaging are included. The authors knowledge of the variety of information ophthalmic assistants need to know to perform their tasks comfortably, capably, and appropriately is obvious and impressive.