title: Emergency medicine magnifying loupes.
abstract: A magnifying loupe system has been evaluated for use in emergency medicine. Physicians uniformly preferred a Keplerian lens system over that of the Galilean lens system. The advantages of the Keplerian lens were its increased field of view and its brighter and clearer peripheral image. The Keplerian loupes allowed the physician to visualize the exquisite details of wound configuration and to perform wound closure using microsurgical techniques.
authors.affiliation: University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville 22908.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Doctor
authors.forename: P V
authors.initials: PV
authors.lastname: Cutler
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Westwater
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Paley
authors.forename: W A
authors.initials: WA
authors.lastname: McClelland
authors.forename: M R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Abidin
authors.forename: R F
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Edlich
mesh_terms: D004635:Emergency Medicine / Q000295:instrumentation*; D004867:Equipment Design; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D008866:Microsurgery; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000601:surgery*