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Your first best glaucoma‐friend, the slit‐lamp
Author(s) -
BRON AM
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
acta ophthalmologica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.534
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1755-3768
pISSN - 1755-375X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1755-3768.2011.2451.x
Subject(s) - slit lamp , glaucoma , medicine , optometry , ophthalmology , stethoscope , radiology
New technologies have provided the ophthalmologists with fascinating techniques to evaluating structure and function in glaucoma. Within a couple of minutes we can now obtain very sophisticated mappings, curves, indices, relations etc. The yield of these techniques in the screening, the diagnosis and the follow‐up of ocular hypertensive and glaucoma patients is invaluable. However as doctors we cannot forget the basis of a medical examination. Like the stethoscope for general practitioners and cardiologists, the slit‐lamp is a key step of the examination for ocular diseases by ophthalmologists. This course is designed for young ophthalmologists and we will give a check list to help them in the slit‐lamp examination from the lids to the optic nerve head. This rapid and systematic approach will help them to improve their daily clinical practice in glaucoma.