BookFerenc Kuhn.
Contents:
1. Should you become a VR surgeon?
2. How to train as a VR surgeon outside a formal fellowship
3. Fundamental rules for the VR surgeon
4. Frequently asked questions about the basics of VR surgery
5. The VR surgeon's relation to his patient: counseling
6. The VR surgeon's relation to his nurse
7. Examination
8. The indication whether to operate
9. The indication when to operate (timing)
10. The order of cases if multiple surgeries are performed
11. The surgeon's relation to himself
12. Major equipment, their accessories and use
13. Instruments, tools, and their use
14. Materials and their use
15. Anesthesia
16. The surgeon at the operating table
17. Vitrectomy performed via the "standard" method and its alternatives
18. Disinfection, draping, and perioperative medications
19. The speculum and its placement
20. Holding and operating hand instruments
21. Sclerotomies and the cannulas
22. Illumination
23. The checklist before the first cut with the probe
24. Using the vitrectomy probe
25. Maintaining good visualization
26. Anatomy and physiology: what the VR surgeon must know
27. The basics of vitreous removal
28. Scleral indentation
29. Cryopexy
30. Endolaser
31. Working with the under air
32. Working with membranes
35. Tamponades
36. Submacular hemorrhage
37. Subretinal biopsy
38. Combined surgery
39. AC basics
40. Handling of major intraoperative complications
41. Pediatric patients
42. The highly myopic eye
43. Intravitreal injections
44. Dropped nucleus and dislocated IOL
45. Endophthalmitis
46. Floaters
47. Hyphema
48. Iris abnormalities
49. Macular disorders: edema
50. Macular disorders related to traction: VMTS, cellophane maculopathy, EMP, macular hole
51. Optic pit
52. PDR
53. PVR
54. Retinal detachment
55. RD, tractional and combined
56. RD, central
57. Retinoschisis
58. RVO
59. Scleroplasty
60. Suprachoroidal hemorrhage
61. Uveitis, posterior
62. Vitreous hemorrhage
63. Trauma
64. Postoperative care
Further reading
Appendix.