Eye tonometry is one of the leading methods used in the patient with ophthalmopathology checkup. The first tonometer acceptable for clinical practice was designed and described in 1884 by A.N.Maklakov [2]. The tonometers introduced earlier had serious drawbacks and were not used in clinical practice. Before this the intraocular pressure (IOP) was evaluated only approximately with the help of ey...

D.R. Thomas and G.A. Compton (eds.), Pressure Ulcers in the Aging Population: A Guide for Clinicians, Aging Medicine 1, DOI 10.1007/978-1-62703-700-6_2, © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014 Abstract Understanding pressure ulcer epidemiology is central to understanding disease burden and to efforts to improve pressure ulcer care. A variety of measures are commonly used, including inci...

The Book is structured into three sections. In the 1st section, the author discusses the Fundamentals of Anaesthesiology and its evolution as a Specialty by quoting that, “Anaesthesiologists can play a role of consultant to help seriously ill patients during and after surgery”, provided the fundamental principles of anaesthesiology are revised and made understandable to the common man who recei...

Cataract surgery is one of the most performed surgeries in the developed world. In addition to its significant impact on visual acuity, phacoemulsification has been hailed as a potential intraocular pressure (IOP)-lowering procedure. While current evidence suggests an overall significant and sustained decrease in IOP to exist after cataract surgery, the specific ocular characteristics that coul...

Objective: To assess the cost-efficacy of three fixed-combination glaucoma treatments currently available in Spain [bimatoprost with timolol (BT)Ganfort®, latanoprost with timolol (LT) Xalacom®, and travoprost with timolol (TT) DuoTrav®]. Methods: Because no studies are available that give a direct comparison of these drugs, a systematic review was carried out to assess their efficacy. Resource...

Ophthalmologists rely on a device known as the Goldmann applanation tonometer to make intraocular pressure (IOP) measurements. It measures the force required to press a flat disc against the cornea to produce a flattened circular region of known area. The IOP is deduced from this force using the Imbert-Fick principle. However, there is scant analytical justification for this analysis. We presen...

Editor’s key points † Continuous measurement of beat-to-beat arterial pressure (AP) during the dynamic phases of anaesthesia facilitates recognition and treatment of acute variations. † The non-invasive AP monitor NexfinTM was compared with invasive AP (IAP) measurements during induction of anaesthesia. † NexfinTM reliably and quickly detected acute changes in AP, but its accuracy was insuffici...

Employing density functional calculations we predict that SmS undergoes a topological phase transition from the trivial Kondo insulator (KI) black phase to a topological metallic gold phase under hydrostatic pressure. The underlying mechanism is the pressure-induced change of the 4f level from below to above the bottom of the 5d conduction band, leading to a d-f band inversion, a parity sign re...

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