title: Primary care of ocular emergencies. 1. Traumatic injuries.
abstract: The primary care physician often must shoulder the heavy medical (and often legal) responsibility for diagnosis of ocular emergencies and for definitive or interim therapy. Proper and timely simple diagnostic procedures followed by appropriate therapy may mean the difference between permanent loss of sight or recovery of useful vision. Lacerations, contusions, and foreign-body injuries are discussed here.
mesh_terms: D005129:Eye Foreign Bodies / Q000628:therapy*; D005131:Eye Injuries / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D005143:Eyelids / Q000293:injuries*; D050723:Fractures, Bone / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D009915:Orbit / Q000293:injuries; D010821:Physicians, Family; D014792:Visual Acuity