title: Contact lens removal: the "chopstick" approach.
abstract: A case of adherent soft contact lenses in an apprehensive adolescent patient is described, along with a description of a novel technique for contact lens removal. After topical anesthesia and saline irrigation, the lenses were successfully removed, atraumatically, using a pair of saline-soaked cotton-tipped applicators held in a chopstick fashion.
authors: Department of Emergency Medicine, The Ohio State University and Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
authors: Jonathan
authors: J
authors: Stockdale
authors: Emile
authors: E
authors: El-Shammaa
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003263:Contact Lenses, Hydrophilic; D005129:Eye Foreign Bodies / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D013525:Surgical Instruments