3. CORNEAL
ABRASION
• DIFFICULT TO SEE
• BE SUSPICIOUS WHEN PAIN DOES
NOT MATCH WHAT YOU CAN SEE
• NOTICE THE INJECTION OF VESSELS
• IF YOU’RE NOT SURE IF ITS SERIOUS
RATHER REFER TO
OPHTHALMOLOGISTS
4. BLUE LIGHT AND STAINING
THE SAME EYE
THIS TIME IT STAINED WITH
FLUORESCEIN
MULTIPLE LINEAR
ABRASIONS
ABRASION MUCH EASIER
TO SEE NOW
5. REMEMBER TO CHECK UNDER THE EYELID
❖ CAREFUL EXAMINATION
WILL OFTEN SAVE YOU
FROM UNNECESSARY
BLUSHES LATER ON
❖ IF A FOREIGN BODY IS
EMBEDDED DO NOT
REMOVE IT YOURSELF BUT
REFER
7. THIS IS A
SUBCONJUNCTIVAL
HAEMMORHAGE
❖ NOTICE THE FLAT NAURE
❖ BRIGHT RED
❖ OFTEN DUE TO TRIVIAL INJURY
(COUGH , SNEEZE, MINOR
TRAUMA)
❖ NO TX NEEDED
❖ REASSURE PT
8. THIS IS A BLOODY CHEMOSIS
❖ NOTICE THE SWELLING OF
THE SCLERA
❖ THIS IS NORMALLY DUE TO
TRAUMA
❖ HIGHLY SUSPICIOUS OF
PENETRATING GLOBE
TRAUMA
❖ IF NOT FROM TRAUMA MAY
BE SIGN OF A
COAGULOPATHY
❖ REQUIRES REFERRAL
9. FOREIGN BODIES
❖ MECHANISM OF INJURY
VERY IMPORTANT
❖ IF YOU SUSPECT
PENETRATING INJURY
THEN YOU………..
❖ DONT FORGET YOUR
TETANUS PROPHYLAXIS
❖ DONT TRY AND REMOVE
RUST RINGS
RUST RING
FROM
FB
10. HYPHEMA
BLOOD IN ANTERIOR
CHAMBER
❖ YOU KNOW WHAT I’M GONNA
SAY………………………………….
❖ REFER REFER REFER!!!!
❖ THIS IS A RELATIVE EMERGENCY,
SHOULD BE SEEN WITHIN 24 HRS
8 BALL HYPHEMA
11. DESCRIBE WHAT YOU SEE
WHATS GOING
ON HERE?
❖ THIS PT WAS WORKING
WITH AN ANGLE
GRINDER
12. INTRA-OCULAR
FB
❖ MECHANISM OF INJURY
IMPORTANT
❖ PAIN IS OFTEN NOT THAT
SEVERE
❖ YOU NEED TO HAVE A HIGH
INDEX OF SUSPICION
❖ AND THEN YOU……….
NOTICE THE FB!
NOTICE THE
TEAR DROP
PUPIL
14. VERY EASY TO MISS !!!
LENS
DISLOCATION
❖ ALWAYS DO A CAREFUL
EXAMINATION
❖ CURSORY GLANCES AT THE EYE
WONT REVEAL MUCH
❖ PT WILL COMPLAIN OF VISUAL
DISTURBANCES
❖ LOOKS LIKE YOU SHOULD MEMORIZE
THE EYE CLINIC SPEED DIAL!!!!
LENS
15. WHAT DO WE DO IN CASUALTY?
IRIODIALYSIS
❖ THE IRIS IS PULLED AWAY
FROM THE CILLIARY
BODY
❖ PT WILL COMPLAIN OF
VISUAL DISTURBANCES
AND A DOUBLE PUPIL
22. SO WHAT DO YOU DO WITH
THESE INJURIES IN CASUALTY?
23. WE REFER BECAUSE
WE MAY DO MORE
HARM THAN GOOD
THIS REPAIR LOOKS REASONABLE
BUT THE PT SUFFERED LONG TERM
CONTRACTURES, EYELID RETRACTION
LAGOPHTALMOS