A primary care physician will frequently encounter a patient presenting with a red eye. While many of these are not serious and can be adequately and completely treated, others have a more sinister cause requiring more sophisticated evaluation and in some cases prompt referral.
In this module you will learn to distinguish between non-severe and severe causes of the red eye and how to make an appropriate diagnosis using simple steps.
Causes for a red eye can be divided into traumatic and non-traumatic:
| TRAUMATIC RED EYE
corneal abrasion* |
NON-TRAUMATIC RED EYE
conjunctivitis* |