Eye Trauma DDx
Differential diagnosis of eye trauma. Trauma can result in a range of injuries, both blunt and penetrating.
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Ranger IVs decrease flow
When you’re out in the field, IV access is precious. So you do everything you can to prevent losing a good line. In concept, Ranger IVs are perfect. They are a ruggedized field IV system in which an IV is…
Bashed, Blind and Bulging
A 35 year-old martial artist presents with loss of vision in his right eye after being on the wrong end of a spinning back fist. Can you save his eyesight?
The Eye In Chemical
A 45 year-old is rushed into the emergency department by the triage nurse. He was working at a building site and got cement into his eyes. How will you assess and manage this case?
The Aching Red Photophobic Eye
A man has an aching red eye and both direct and consensual photophobia. Is this anterior uveitis? What is a hypopyon?
Eyes Wide Split
What are the considerations in the emergency department diagnosis and management of penetrating eye trauma?
A Pox On Your Eye
An elderly woman presents to the emergency department with a 3 to 4 day history of a painful rash on her face. zoster ophthalmicus
What Weingart would do?
Trauma in the ER with no back-up: a knife in the back. To pull or not to pull.... What would you do? Or better yet, what would Weingart do?
What Weingart would do II
Trauma in the ER with no back-up: To pull or not to pull.... We find out what Weingart would do, and the outcome of this sphincter-tightening trauma tribulation.
Horrible Spots and Pain
A 4 year-old boy is brought to the emergency department by his parents with a history of increasing numbers of red spots on his legs over the past 6 days.
High Pressure-Injection Injury
A review on the emergency department assessment and management of high-pressure injection injuries.
Subungual haematoma trephination
Following on from Bone and Joint Bamboozler 006 we outline a simple method for trephination (drainage) of the subungual haematoma