{"id":583,"date":"2023-05-05T08:57:07","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T08:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/?p=583"},"modified":"2023-05-06T09:16:46","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T09:16:46","slug":"new-cpg-eye-examination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/new-cpg-eye-examination\/","title":{"rendered":"New CPG: Eye examination"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/guideline_index\/Eye_Examination\/\">Eye examination CPG<\/a> is a new CPG developed by the CPG Committee and endorsed by the Paediatric Improvement Collaborative (December 2022). The CPG provides a step-by-step approach to examination of the eye for children with practical tips and important considerations. <\/p>\r\n<p>CPG key points<\/p>\r\n<ol>\r\n<li>Assessing visual acuity can be difficult but should be performed early (before examination when the child may become distressed)<\/li>\r\n<li>Visual acuity is assessed for each eye based on the child\u2019s age and ability to interact<\/li>\r\n<li>Adequate analgesia will aid examination and procedural sedation may be required in the younger child<\/li>\r\n<li>Fluorescein shows corneal abnormalities when viewed under cobalt blue light. Stain with fluorescein if corneal abrasion, ulcer or foreign body is suspected<\/li>\r\n<li>Serious periocular trauma should be treated as a suspected ruptured or penetrated globe and managed by minimising distress, placing an eye shield and urgently referring to ophthalmology, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/guideline_index\/Penetrating_eye_injury\/\">Penetrating eye injury.<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Eye examination CPG is a new CPG developed by the CPG Committee and endorsed by the Paediatric Improvement Collaborative (December 2022). The CPG provides a step-by-step approach to examination of the eye for children with practical tips and important considerations. CPG key points Assessing visual acuity can be difficult but should be performed early &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/new-cpg-eye-examination\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3942,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11797,24697,9503,24433,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-individual-cpg-posts","category-monthly-update","category-newsletter","category-paediatric-improvement-collaborative-pic","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3942"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":592,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions\/592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}