This note
explains the following topics: General principles of maintenance and
terminology, Common maintenance tasks and techniques to handle them, Maintenance
management, Torch light, Ophthalmoscope, retinoscope, Indirect Ophthalmoscope,
Slit lamp and other optical equipment, General care of surgical instruments,
Care of Knives, Multimeter, Optical surfaces and some simple electrical
calculations.
This lecture note will
serve as a practical guideline for the hard-pressed mid-level health workers. We
hope that it will be a good introduction to eye diseases for health science
students working in Ethiopia. This note covers the following topics: basic
anatomy and physiology of the eye, basic examination of the eye, external eye
diseases, differential diagnosis of red eye, community ophthalmology, eye
injuries and systemic disease and the eye.