RT Book, Section
A1 Riordan-Eva, Paul
A2 Riordan-Eva, Paul
A2 Cunningham, Emmett T.
SR Print(0)
ID 55781130
T1 Chapter 3. Ophthalmic Emergencies
T2 Vaughan & Asbury's General Ophthalmology, 18e
YR 2011
FD 2011
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-163420-5
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=55781130
RD 2024/04/19
AB Prompt  recognition  and  treatment  of  ophthalmic  emergencies  are  crucial  to  prevention  of  unnecessary  visual  impairment.  Although  specific  diagnosis  may  require  specialist  ophthalmic  expertise,  using  simple  guidelines  non-ophthalmologists  as  well  as  ophthalmologists  can  identify  patients  requiring  emergency  or  urgent  evaluation.  Intensity  and  duration  of  pain,  rapidity  of  onset  and  severity  of  visual  loss  (primarily  assessed  by  visual  acuity,  which  should  be  measured  for  each  eye  in  all  patients  presenting  with  ophthalmic  emergencies),  gross  appearance  of  the  globe,  and  abnormalities  on  ophthalmoscopy  are  particularly  important  parameters.