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Eye Injuries & Trauma

Eye injuries range from being minor such as getting soap inside one eye, which may result in a permanent vision loss. Eye injuries often occur in the workplace, from other accidents, at home, or while participating in sports.

Eye trauma may affect not the eye only but may affect the surrounding area, which includes adjacent tissues and bone structure. Eye injuries and trauma differ and vary from minor to being a medical emergency.

When is surgery needed?

If you may have eye injuries due to mechanical trauma either from penetration or blunt, chemical agents, or ultraviolet and ionising radiation, it is important to seek medical attention urgently after the eye injury so that the ophthalmologist is able to prevent further damage.

Dr Davey will run tests to rule out the severity of your eye trauma so that he is able properly to diagnose you and also plan treatment. The below are eye injuries which require urgent referral to an ophthalmologist:

• Chemical burn, open globe injury or retrobulbar haemorrhage
• Corneal opacities, rust rings or large corneal abrasion

Symptoms experienced include:

• Eye pain
• Trouble seeing
• One eye not moving
• Unusual pupil size
• Cuts to the eyelid
• Scratched eye
• Blood in the clear area of the eye
• One eye is sticking out
• Something in the eye and it can’t be easily be removed

What does surgery involve?

In extreme situations where an eye knocked out of the socket or a penetrating eye injury, it is advised to go see the ophthalmologist. Dr Davey may advise that an eye surgery to be done to correct the issue. Before the eye surgery, Dr Davey will urgently stabilise and resuscitate you so that you are stable. He will then examine you and then provide antibiotic therapy to prevent any infections from occurring.