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S B Verma

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PubMed1989

Optometric services in the prison system.

Traditionally, optometric services have been limited to practitioners' offices or clinical settings. Recently more optometric practitioners have ventured out of the office to provide eye care to those who otherwise would not receive such care. This report discusses the need to provide eye care to prison inmates. It also addresses the nature of vision and eye problems more common among the prison population and the need for mandated eye care for the inmates.

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PubMed1989

Vision care for the elderly: problems and directions.

This paper discusses vision care needs of the elderly population as a public health concern. Emphasis has been placed on the current utilization of optometric services. Recommendations are made for optometric practitioners to get actively involved as members of the multidisciplinary health care team, both by learning about aging and teaching other providers about vision of the aging, to truly serve the visual needs of the elderly.

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PubMed1988

Training programs in geriatric optometry.

Current training programs in geriatric optometry are not uniform among the educational institutions. This paper discusses the importance of such programs, and offers strong recommendations for their future.

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PubMed1982

Transport of gases in pulmonary capillaries- a computation of equilibrium constants arising in the oxygen dissociation curve.

A study of the simultaneous diffusion of O2 and CO2 in the presence of haemoglobin is made by considering the intermediate compound hypothesis of Adair. Our analysis exhibits explicit dependence of the fractional saturation (of haemoglobin with O2) on pCO2. It has been emphasized that discrepancies in the various numerically computed values of equilibrium constants arising in the oxygen dissociation curve may be due to inadequacy of the methods used to solve the normal equations obtained in the process of least-square curve-fitting, which are highly non-linear in character in the present context. It has been shown, by using the method suggested by Marquardt that the values of these constants lead to a saturation function which fits very well with the one based on documented data. The analysis further shows that under normal physiological conditions, the main bulk of oxygenated haemoglobin exists in the fully saturated form as HbO8 which also seems obvious from our computed values of equilibrium constants.

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