Authors: Adam L Brown, Karen Pinches / Editor: Jason M Kendall / Reviewer: Jon Bailey / Codes: OptP2, SLO4 / Published: 18/12/2021
A 31-year-old man presented to the emergency department (ED) after falling off a wall into a bush. He sustained head and facial injuries. He complained of a mild headache. There was no loss of consciousness, amnesia or neck pain.
On examination his Glasgow Coma Score was 15/15 and the remainder of his physiological observations were normal. He had a laceration to his right upper eyelid, with significant swelling of the lid making occular examination difficult. He had no evidence of base of skull fracture or of significant head injury. He had no focal limb neurology or extra-cranial injury.
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Which one of the following regarding initial management of this patient would be correct?
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This man had his right globe examined and was found to have markedly reduced visual acuity and lack of light perception with no obvious occular damage. Reduction in visual acuity to the extent of monocular blindness in this eye is most likely due to which one of the following?
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In view of the mechanism of injury, the laceration to his eyelid and his monocular visual loss, which one of the following would be the best modality for urgent imaging?
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good session on head injury
THANKS
Thank you a nice case
Thank you this has helped
Interesting case.
Great case scenario. Trauma is always intriguing. Always check the vision of traumatic eye.
This is an excellent case, thank you!
nice case
good case
A very good learning point here. Have a low threshold for further excamination and imaging if mechanism of injury concerning!