Pitfalls

Failure to consider temporal arteritis in the differential diagnosis of acute headache, with resultant potentially avoidable permanent visual loss
Failure to document formal visual acuity at the initial presentation of the patient with sudden visual loss
Failure to commence appropriate high dose corticosteroid treatment for the patient with symptoms suggesting arteritic AION
Failure to consider acute glaucoma in the unwell patient with headache and vomiting
Failure to instigate prompt management and urgent ophthalmic opinion in the patient presenting with signs and symptoms of CRAO
Failure to consider occipital lobe pathology and thromboembolic risk factors as the cause for visual impairment and perceived ocular pathology.