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Data gathering
- Red flags – contact lenses, severe eye pain, sudden loss of vision, trauma, headache/vomiting/fever/rash
- Others – vision, discharge, photosensitive, floaters
- Examine – Inspection, Acuity, Fields, Reflexes, Ophthalmoscopy, eye Movements, temporal palpation
Clinical management
- Explanation
- Pressure inside the eye becomes too high very quickly. It is an emergency because if it is not treated quickly, it can lead to permanent loss of vision.
- It is due to a sudden blockage of drainage of aqueous humour fluid out of your eye. As more fluid continues to be made, the pressure inside your eye rises quickly.
- Treatment
- Refer to A+E – Eye casualty