{"id":598,"date":"2023-05-05T09:39:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T09:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/?p=598"},"modified":"2023-05-06T09:42:34","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T09:42:34","slug":"updated-cpg-acute-red-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/updated-cpg-acute-red-eye\/","title":{"rendered":"Updated CPG: Acute red eye\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/guideline_index\/Acute_red_eye\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Acute red eye CPG<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"none\"> has been updated and reviewed by the CPG Committee and endorsed by the Paediatric Improvement Collaborative (December 2022). It has been updated to include a comprehensive condition specific management table with images to aid in assessment.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">CPG key points<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134245418&quot;:true,&quot;134245529&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:40,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"none\">Conjunctivitis is the most common cause of acute red eyes<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"none\">Adequate analgesia will aid examination and procedural sedation may be required in the younger child to allow the clinician to differentiate benign from serious conditions<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"none\">Key features of sight-threatening conditions are severe eye pain, photophobia, decreased visual acuity or a history of possible penetrating eye trauma; these conditions require specialist ophthalmological assessment<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Acute red eye CPG has been updated and reviewed by the CPG Committee and endorsed by the Paediatric Improvement Collaborative (December 2022). It has been updated to include a comprehensive condition specific management table with images to aid in assessment.\u00a0\u00a0 CPG key points\u00a0 Conjunctivitis is the most common cause of acute red eyes\u00a0 Adequate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/updated-cpg-acute-red-eye\/\">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-598","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\/598","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=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions\/600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}