Blunt Trauma to the Eye
Your Emergency Department Director decided that a team-building exercise at the local boxing gym would be a good idea. You are left to hold the fort at work. Blunt ocular trauma
Half an 8 ball
A 26 year-old man sustained an injury of uncertain mechanism to his left eye while at the bottom of a ruck during a game of rugby. Can you sort it out for him?
Bump and blur
A 71 year-old man tripped at home and bumped his forehead on the wall as he went to ground. His only complaint is markedly blurred vision in his right eye. How are you going to manage this case in the emergency department?
Out of Sight
As we're coming to the end of an absolutely eyeful Ophthalmology August here at LitFL it's time to bring together all the different ways the 'lights can go out'. Are you ready for the visual loss challenge?
Claude Pouteau
Claude Pouteau (1724–1775) was a French surgeon. First to describe distal radius fracture with 'dorsal tipping of the distal fragment' (Pouteau-Colles)
A Woman of Singular Vision
56 year-old female presents with sudden onset loss of vision in her right eye. PMH hypertension, hyperlipidema. Central retinal vein occlusion, CRVO
A Man of Singular Vision
A 52 year-old man presents with sudden onset loss of vision in his right eye. PMH is notable for hypertension, hyperlipidemia and angina.
Dominic Corrigan
Sir Dominic John Corrigan, 1st Baronet (1802-1880) was an Irish physician. Eponym: Corrigan pulse (1832), Corrigan disease (1832), Corrigan cirrhosis (1836), Corrigan button (1846), and Corrgian sign (1854)
More Befuddling Pupillary Asymmetry
A man presents with a persistent cough... but you notice something wrong with his eyes. Horner syndrome, ptosis, miosis with differentials
I can see clearly now
A man presents with transient monocular loss of vision. Can you make the diagnosis and manage this patient in the emergency department?
Jean-Louis Petit
Jean-Louis Petit (1674-1750) French surgeon. Inventor of the Petit-type tourniquet. First postulated that 'carpal dislocations' were distal radius fractures
The Goggle-eyed Fisherman
A fisherman presents with headache, fevers, left eye pain and swelling and visual disturbance. What is your diagnosis and how will you manage the case?