RT Book, Section
A1 Joshi, Weena
A1 Konzen, Katherine M.
A2 Tenenbein, Milton
A2 Macias, Charles G.
A2 Sharieff, Ghazala Q.
A2 Yamamoto, Loren G.
A2 Schafermeyer, Robert
SR Print(0)
ID 1155429449
T1 Non-Traumatic Eye Emergencies
T2 Strange and Schafermeyer's Pediatric Emergency Medicine, 5e
YR 2019
FD 2019
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781259860751
LK accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1155429449
RD 2024/04/19
AB Normal  visual  acuity  is  20/40  in  a  3-year-old,  20/30  in  a  4-year-old,  and  20/20  in  a  5-  to  6-year-old  child.Steroids  should  not  be  used  for  patients  with  iritis  or  keratitis  until  herpes  simplex  is  excluded.Glaucoma  should  be  suspected  in  patients  who  have  eye  pain  and  nausea  and  vomiting.Neonates  with  suspected  gonococcal  conjunctivitis  should  undergo  a  complete  sepsis  workup,  including  a  lumbar  puncture.  These  patients  should  be  admitted  for  intravenous  antibiotics.Chemical  alkali  burns  to  the  eye  can  result  in  liquefactive  necrosis  and  should  be  irrigated  until  the  eye  pH  is  between  6  and  8.