Vision and learning are closely related to each other and school is the first formal space for learning. When children have difficulty in school — from learning to read to understanding lessons taught to seeing the blackboard — many teachers often suspect the child to be having a vision problem which often ends up being … Read more
This document is prepared for use by anyone interested in developing a new, or improving an existing, children’s eye care facility. It aims to provide reasons why it is important to focus on childhood blindness, discusses World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines, and continues with a description of how to create a tertiary care facility dedicated … Read more
The sciences of eye banking and corneal transplantation have made tremendous advances over the past several decades. Changes in preservation methods, surgical techniques and serological testing have necessitated frequent review and reeducation. Throughout these changes, standardization of terminology and techniques has been difficult. This manual will help those involved with eye banking and corneal transplantation … Read more
The ‘How to Manage’ Series for Healthcare Technology is broken up into 6 distinctive guides. Click on each link to open each corresponding guide: How to Organize a System of Healthcare Technology Management How to Plan and Budget for your Healthcare Technology How to Procure and Commission your Healthcare Technology How to Operate your Healthcare … Read more
Download A Family Guide to Childhood Glaucoma and Cataracts Written by Alex V. Levin, MD, MHSc, FAAP, FAAO, FRCSC with Christopher M. Fecarotta, MD Edited by Sharon F. Freedman, MD, Andrea Osborn, and Ian Hubling Copyright © 2014 Alex V. Levin
This manual is designed to show a technique for trachomatous trichiasis (TT) surgery using a clamp that protects the cornea, maintains hemostasis, and provides markers for standardizing the surgical technique. As an introduction to the subject, background information about trachoma is included. Download Trachomatous Trichiasis Surgery: A Procedure Using New Clamp Method Produced by: ORBIS International … Read more
This atlas employs schematic drawings designed to illustrate at each step only that anatomy significant to the step shown for easier orientation of the reader. Download Surgical Management of Strabismus: A Practical and Updated ApproachBy Eugene M. Helveston, M.D. Copyright © 2005
The World Health Organization estimates that 333 million people are blind or visually impaired. Nearly half of these, 154 million are suffering from uncorrected refractive error, with more than 13 million of them children. Individuals so affected are handicapped in a variety of ways from being deprived of educational opportunities to being limited in the … Read more
