The Scrub's Bible. How to Assist at Cataract and Corneal Surgery with a Primer on the Anatomy of the Human Eye and Self Assessment

1. Introduction
2. The Evolution of Eye Surgery
3. The Advent of Ambulatory Eye Surgery
4. The Eye and its Anatomical Considerations
5. How We See
6. Contemplating Cataract Surgery
7. How the Patient Gets From the Front Door of the ASC to Your OR Suite
8. Decorum in the OR
9. Infection Control
10. Setting Up Your OR Suite
11. The Phaco Machine
12. Setting Up the Phaco Machine
13. Trouble-Shooting the Phaco Machine
14. Cataract Surgery: More Than One Way to Skin a Cat
15. Femto Laser Assisted Cataract Surgery (FLACS)
16. Performing Phaco
17. Determining Lens Power and Design: Lens Implants and Implantation
18. Glaucoma Treatment as an Adjunct to Cataract Surgery
19. Complications Encountered, Instruments at the Ready: Here is a List of "What Ifs" and "What to Do's"
20. The Surgical Tray for Cataract Surgery (Example) 21. Surgeon Specific Instruments
22. Self-Assessment Test Cataract Surgery
23. Surgical Checklist
24. Secondary IOLs
25. Corneal Surgery. The Cornea: How it Works
26. Corneal Transplantation: Penetrating Keratoplasty
27. Corneal Transplantation: Keratoprosthesis
28. Corneal Transplantation: Endothelial Keratoplasty/DSAEK
29. Corneal transplantation: Endothelial Keratoplasty/DMEK
30. Pterygium Surgery
31. Band Keratopathy Removal
32. Complications Encountered, Instruments at the Ready: Here is a list of "What ifs" and "What to do's
33. Surgical Tray Penetrating Keratoplasty 34. Surgical Tray Keratoprosthesis
35. Surgical Tray DSAEK
36. Surgical Tray DMEK
37. Surgical Tray Pterygium
38. Self Assessment Test Corneal Surgery

The second edition of The Scrub's Bible is a timely, comprehensive resource, which will include extensive chapter and content updates, along with 50 new images and drawings. Updated sections will delve into subjects of endothelial transplantation, as well as cataract surgery and new medical and technological developments: femtosecond lasers, innovations in premium lens implant technologies, optiwave refractive analysis, and combined glaucoma and cataract surgery. Additional extensive chapter updates in the surgical tray, self-assessment, and corneal transplantation will be described in great detail as well.

Directed at the growing number of untutored personnel aspiring to enter the disciplines of ophthalmic technicianry and surgical assisting, The Scrub's Bible, 2nd edition remains a key entry level guide to understanding the human eye, its basic anatomy, and physiology. Absorbing this information serves as the foundation for the authors, who are all skilled and respected eye surgeons, educators, and surgery center owners, to draw the reader through the fundamentals of the two most common areas of ophthalmic surgery: cataract and corneal/refractive surgery. The Scrub's Bible 2nd edition will build upon the first edition--remaining an easy-to-read tool that is broken down into discreet and understandable elements, meant to avoid the intimidating rhetoric of a standard reference.

Richard S. Koplin MD, New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, New York, NY, USA

David C. Ritterband MD, New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, New York, NY, USA

Emily Waisbren MD, New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, New York, NY, USA

John A. Seedor MD, New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, New York, USA

Elaine Wu MD, New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, New York, NY, USA