A Practical Guide to Portable Pupillometry

The applications and advantages of portable pupillometry for a wide variety of healthcare providers are becoming increasingly evident, with frequent pupil evaluation becoming the protocol throughout critical care and emergency departments. Authored by a world leading expert, this practical, user-friendly book brings together all the research on portable pupillometry and explains the meaning of the various parameters that new portable pupillometers provide. Starting with the anatomy and physiology of the pupil, the book moves on to discuss pharmacological effects, unusual pupillary syndromes, measurement and size of the pupil, pupillary reflex dilation and pupillary unrest. Additional chapters focus on traumatic brain injury, cardiac arrest, intensive care, opioid effect, acute pain and anisocoria and provide valuable clinical examples and case reports. Also featuring an extensive bibliography for further reading, this book is essential reading for all healthcare professionals using the pupil to evaluate drug effects and ischemic/traumatic insults to the brain.

• The first book to bring together all the research on the pupil using a portable infrared pupillometer, providing a convenient summary of how the technique has developed over the course of the last 35 years including its many indications and its value to the health care provider
• Covering the various measures that can be derived from the pupil and examples of how these measures are used by health care providers, as well as the method of use of portable pupillometry and how to properly interpret the pupillary reflexes in relatively simple terms
• Explains how to use different programs on the portable infrared pupillometers to obtain more specific information from the pupillary reflexes, including the capacity to program the instrument to retrieve unique information for specific questions

Preface
Acknowledgements
Glossary
Introduction
1. Early history of the pupil
2. Anatomy of the pupil
3. Physiology of the pupil
4. Pharmacology of the pupil
5. Unusual pupillary syndromes
6. Measurement of the pupil
7. Pupil size
8. Pupillary light reflex
9. Pupillary reflex dilation
10. Measuring inhibition at the EW nucleus
11. Traumatic brain injury, cardiac arrest, intensive care
12. Opioid effect and acute pain
13. Anisocoria
14. Clinical examples and case reports
Conclusion
References
Index.