A 5-year-old boy is brought to the ED with a swollen red eye and a raised temperature.
A 5-year-old boy is brought to the ED with a swollen red eye and a raised temperature.
A patient presents with sudden, painful loss of vision. Can you diagnose the problem and provide emergency management?
A 34-year-old man presents to the ED with a red and painful left eye that is worsening over the past two days. He reports photophobia, blurred vision but no discharge.
It’s a busy Friday night in the ED and another facial injury presents following an alleged assault to the right eye.
A 55-year-old woman presents with acute left eye pain, blurred vision, redness, headache and halos around lights that started when she was watching TV in a dimly lit room.
When a simple trip makes you as blind as a bat.
Chemical eye injuries are time-critical emergencies. This blog outlines how to rapidly recognise and manage them in the ED, with practical tips on irrigation, pH monitoring, grading, and safe discharge.
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This blog summarises the assessment and initial management of common ophthalmic emergency presentation such as the acute red eye.
This session covers the initial assessment of eye and visual problems in the Emergency Department.
This module covers the initial assessment of eye and visual problems in the Emergency Department.
25 questions. 25 minutes. Test yourself against your colleagues!
A 7-year-old presents with a red, painful eye following a playground trauma.
A 65-year-old presents with a painful rash extending to the tip of the nose.
Most external eye infections pose little risk to life or vision. Orbital cellulitis is the exception
This module will look at the assessment and management of infections affecting the external eye and the lacrimal apparatus.
A 72-year-old male presents with distressing peri-orbital pain after pupil dilation.
A three-day-old infant is brought to the Emergency Department with rapidly worsening symptoms.
A 28-year-old male presents with an acutely red eye and reduced visual acuity.
There’s more than meets the eye in this case of orbital cellulitis.