TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Chapter 3. Ophthalmic Emergencies A1 - Riordan-Eva, Paul A2 - Riordan-Eva, Paul A2 - Cunningham, Emmett T. PY - 2011 T2 - Vaughan & Asbury's General Ophthalmology, 18e 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. SN - PB - The McGraw-Hill Companies CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/29 UR - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=55781130 ER -