Trauma News

A 20-year-old man presented to the Tufts Medical Center emergency department with left eye pain, lightheadedness, nausea and vomiting after blunt trauma to the left lateral periorbital region.

Specific imaging findings in patients with ocular trauma were associated with vision outcomes, which may help establish a more accurate visual recovery prognosis, according to a study.

In the Dec. 10, 2023, issue of Healio | OSN, Binotti and Alwreikat present an interesting trauma case: a man falling and hitting his face.

The ophthalmology service at Tufts Medical Center was consulted urgently to examine a hospitalized 78-year-old man at bedside who had developed sudden onset severe right eye pain and ecchymosis while asleep in his hospital bed.

A 70-year-old man presented with blurry vision after sustaining trauma 6 weeks after uncomplicated phacoemulsification and IOL implantation in the left eye.

According to NATO standards, combat casualties should be managed through a system of echelons of care in which the most critically injured patients receive the most urgent care at the earliest time possible.

War shifts needs and priorities, and much of what is taken for granted in peacetime is no longer there.

I did not serve as a physician in the military.

The orbital socket forms the most visible part of the face. It holds the eyeball and surrounding muscles with neurovascular soft tissues.