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Blunt Eye Trauma
Aka: Blunt Eye Trauma
- See Also
- Eye Trauma
- Exam
- Remove contacts immediately
- Removal difficult with swelling
- See Eye Exam
- Complications: Conditions secondary to blunt Trauma
- Hyphema
- Retinal Detachment
- Eyelid Laceration
- Penetrating Eye Injury with Globe Rupture
- Lens Dislocation
- Traumatic Glaucoma
- Imaging: Indicated if penetrating injury suspected
- Orbital CT Scan (1-1.5 mm cuts, axial and coronal) or
- XRay (up and down gaze views) if CT not available
- Management
- Patients who are discharged
- Close interval follow-up
- Self-monitoring of vision and immediate return for worsening or lack of improvement
- References
- Peate (2007) Am Fam Physician 75(7):1017-22 [PubMed]