Contact Lenses and Practice II.

Vztahy:

The course 17PBOKC2 can be graded only after the course 17PBOKC1 has been successfully completed.

The course 17PBOKC3 can be graded only after the course 17PBOKC2 has been successfully completed.

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Department of Natural Sciences

Synopsis:

Toric contact lenses. Bifocal and multifocal lenses and other methods of presbyopic correction. Contact lenses in children. Tinted, cosmetic and prosthetic lenses. Therapeutic use of contact lenses. Special types of contact lenses. Contact lenses wearing under special conditions (sport, challenging occupations and environments, diseases, etc.). Drugs interaction with contact lens wearing. Contact lens complications and their management. Spherical soft and rigid lens fitting. Contact lens fitting in astigmatism and presbyopia. Basic and specific contact lens care. Follow up examinations of contact lens patients.

Requirements:

Credit: last hour automatically in the case of good test results and 70% participation, or compensatory need to succeed in final written work

Testing: oral test, 2 questions from each group

Syllabus of lectures:

1.Toric contact lenses.

2.Bifocal and multifocal lenses and other methods of presbyopic correction.

3.Contact lenses in children.

4.Tinted, cosmetic and prosthetic lenses.

5.Therapeutic use of contact lenses.

6.Special types of contact lenses.

7.Contact lenses wearing under special conditions (sport, challenging occupations and environments, diseases, etc.).

8.Drugs interaction with contact lens wearing.

9.Contact lens complications and their management.

Syllabus of tutorials:

Spherical soft and rigid lens fitting.

Contact lens fitting in astigmatism and presbyopia.

Basic and specific contact lens care.

Follow up examinations of contact lens patients.

Study Objective:

Anamnesis, basic investigation, choosing of contact lenses

Study materials:

1.Phillips. et al.: Contact Lenses. 1997, Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford.

2.EFRON, Nathan. Contact lens complications. 3rd ed. Edinburgh: Elsevier Saunders, 2012.

3.EFRON, Nathan, ed. Contact lens practice. 2nd ed. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2010.

4.DOUTHWAITE, W. A. Contact lens optics and lens design. 3rd ed. Edinburgh: Elsevier/Butterworth-Heinemann, 2006.

5.Roth, Hans-Walter: Contact lens complications : etiology, pathogenesis, prevention, therapy, Stuttgart : Thieme, 2003.

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Further information:

No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans: