Introduction to ArtificiaI Intelligence in Higher Education
Red Eye Diagnosis and Treatment Guide
1. The Red Eye
Is it serious?
Do I need to do anything about it?
Can I treat it myself ?
Do I need to send the patient
somewhere else and if so when?
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2. What questions are
important?
• How long have you had it, how
is it changing?
• Symptoms? Vision ……
• Past History relevant? eg Contact
lenses, surgery, previous uveitis…
23. When to consider
referral
• Visual loss
• Severe pain
• Purulent discharge
• Corneal involvement
• Conjunctival scarring
• No response to Rx
• Immunocompromised e.g HIV