About Book
It is our honest pleasure to existing the eighth version of The Wills Eye Manual. This version arises from the basis laid by using all previous contributors and, as in years past, would now not have been viable except the collaborative efforts, teamwork, and never-satisfied mentality of the Wills Eye residents, fellows, and faculty.
Our hope is for readers to discover inside this textual content the most up to date records and collective scientific suggestions concerning the workplace and emergency room evaluation, diagnosis, management, and cure of ophthalmic disease.
The eighth version consists of the outcomes of predominant medical trials due to the fact that the ultimate edition. Changing tendencies in the workup, categorization, and therapy of more than a few ophthalmic specialties which include trauma, oculoplastic, cornea, pediatrics, neuro-ophthalmology, uveitis, and retinal disorder are mirrored in this contemporary edition.
We are proud to share our up-to-date multimedia issue of The Wills Eye Manual, together with a digital database of a variety of scientific stipulations and the addition of new workplace and emergency room procedures.
While incorporating contemporary scientific and technological trends, we strived to keep the authentic desires of the founding editors, specifically to furnish a streamlined, concise, and simply on hand useful resource for healthcare carriers coming near sufferers in want of eye care.
We hope you proceed to make use of the eighth version of The Wills Eye Manual and discover it to be a convenient, easy-to-use information for the administration of ophthalmic disease.
Preface to the First Edition
Our purpose has been to produce a concise book, supplying necessary diagnostic pointers and particular therapeutic statistics pertaining to eye disease. We realized the want for this e book whilst managing emergency room sufferers at one of the biggest and busiest eye hospitals in the country. Until now, dependable data should solely be got in unwieldy textbooks or inaccessible journals.
As residents at Wills Eye Hospital, we have benefited from the center of some of the world-renowned ophthalmic specialists in writing this book. More importantly, we are conscious of the questions that the ophthalmology resident, the attending ophthalmologist, and the emergency room doctor (not skilled in ophthalmology) choose answered immediately.
The e book is written for the eye care issuer who, in the midst of evaluating an eye problem, wishes speedy get admission to extra information. We strive to be as precise as possible, describing the therapeutic modalities used at our institution.
Many of these tips are, therefore, no longer the solely manner in which to deal with a unique disorder, however, point out private preference. They are guidelines, now not rules.
Because of the continuously altering wealth of ophthalmic knowledge, omissions and blunders are possible, especially with regard to management. Drug dosages have been checked carefully, however the doctor is entreated to test the Physicians’ Desk Reference or Facts and Comparisons when prescribing unfamiliar medications. Not all contraindications and facet outcomes are described.
We sense this e book will make a welcome partner to the many doctors concerned with treating eye problems. It is the entirety you desired to recognize and nothing more.
