{"id":593,"date":"2023-05-05T09:17:48","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T09:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/?p=593"},"modified":"2023-05-06T09:29:47","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T09:29:47","slug":"updated-cpg-penetrating-eye-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/updated-cpg-penetrating-eye-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Updated CPG: Penetrating eye injury\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

The <\/span>Penetrating eye injury CPG<\/span><\/a> has been updated and reviewed by the CPG Committee and endorsed by the Paediatric Improvement Collaborative (December 2022). This CPG now includes signs suggestive of a globe perforation and images of penetrating eye injuries for reference.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

CPG key points\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. An open globe, or penetrating eye injury is a serious threat to vision<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. In penetrating eye injury, avoid any pressure on the eyeball through examination or padding, as eye contents may be extruded<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Ensure prompt and adequate analgesia. Do not give any eye drops<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. If identified or suspected, stop examination, place an eye shield over the eye, keep nil by mouth and urgently refer to ophthalmology. Urgent imaging may also be required.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The Penetrating eye injury CPG has been updated and reviewed by the CPG Committee and endorsed by the Paediatric Improvement Collaborative (December 2022). This CPG now includes signs suggestive of a globe perforation and images of penetrating eye injuries for reference.\u00a0\u00a0 CPG key points\u00a0\u00a0 An open globe, or penetrating eye injury is a serious threat … 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":[11797,28,9503,24433,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-individual-cpg-posts","category-news","category-newsletter","category-paediatric-improvement-collaborative-pic","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","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=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":594,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions\/594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}