Ophthalmic Surgery for Beginners

Basic knowledge: Safe Surgery in Ophthalmology

In preparation for a beginner ophthalmologist’s first surgical procedures, this book provides numerous tips and recommendations. These are useful for the trainee ophthalmologist as well as for the surgical assistant preparing for the procedure. This practical book consolidates the experience of seasoned colleagues and is a must-have for beginners who want to successfully master their first surgical interventions on the eye.

Contents include the following:

Surgical planning, preparation and anesthesia
Suturing techniques and materials
Introductory knowledge regarding equipment
Incision techniques and the respective surgical procedure
Eyelid surgery
Intraocular lenses and substances used intraocularly
Medication administered intraocularly
Management of complications



To help understand the book’s contents, instructional schematic drawings illustrate each surgical step and approach. Particularly helpful are the many tips from experienced surgeons and advice on how to avoid dangerous situations.

The book is ideal for all ophthalmology residents and beginner surgeons, as well as surgical assistants preparing for their first ophthalmic surgery.

The Editor

Professor Dr. med. Frank Wilhelm is an ophthalmologist living in Greifswald, Germany. He works as a surgeon and trains young colleagues. For many years he has been sharing his experience of the basics of ophthalmic surgery with colleagues in the form of courses.

The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence. A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content.

This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.