RT Book, Section
A1 Mishra, Seema S.
A1 Konzen, Katherine M.
A2 Schafermeyer, Robert
A2 Tenenbein, Milton
A2 Macias, Charles G.
A2 Sharieff, Ghazala Q.
A2 Yamamoto, Loren G.
SR Print(0)
ID 1105685696
T1 Non-Traumatic Eye Emergencies
T2 Strange and Schafermeyer's Pediatric Emergency Medicine, 4e
YR 2014
FD 2014
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-182926-7
LK accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1105685696
RD 2024/04/16
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  work-up,  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.