Practice Management
A 40-year-old man presents to an urgent care center with an acutely painful red eye in which he has blurred vision. He notices a bit of a headache and that there are some halos around lights, but he says that he has not experienced nausea or vomiting. When reviewing his medical history with you, he notes that he recently started taking a new antidepressant. View the image taken (Figure 1) and consider what your diagnosis …
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Urgent message: Whether benign or vision-threatening, acute eye conditions seen in the urgent care setting require careful evaluation and triage, based on access to the right tools and knowledge of key clues to diagnosis. SARVOTHAM KINI, MD In Part 1 of this article in January, we discussed urgent care management of foreign bodies in the eye, corneal abrasion, red eye, scleritis, and conjunctivitis. In Part 2, we will review subconjunctival hemorrhage, uveitis, iritis, keratitis, acute …
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