Orbital Compartment Syndrome: How a Young Man’s Vision was Saved by the Timely Actions of an Emergency Medicine Physician

In the following case presentation, a young man who incurred orbital compartment syndrome (OCS) from physical trauma significantly improved from timely lateral canthotomy. Lateral canthotomy is recommended to be performed as soon as possible to avoid permanent vision loss, which is the most feared c...

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Autores principales: Houck, Jessica, Mangal, Rohan, Vandillen, Chrissy, Ganti, Latha, Sleigh, Bryan C
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6721876/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31516769
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5057
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author Houck, Jessica
Mangal, Rohan
Vandillen, Chrissy
Ganti, Latha
Sleigh, Bryan C
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description In the following case presentation, a young man who incurred orbital compartment syndrome (OCS) from physical trauma significantly improved from timely lateral canthotomy. Lateral canthotomy is recommended to be performed as soon as possible to avoid permanent vision loss, which is the most feared complication associated with orbital compartment syndrome. This procedure completely restored vision in the patient and permitted prompt discharge.
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spelling pubmed-67218762019-09-12 Orbital Compartment Syndrome: How a Young Man’s Vision was Saved by the Timely Actions of an Emergency Medicine Physician Houck, Jessica Mangal, Rohan Vandillen, Chrissy Ganti, Latha Sleigh, Bryan C Cureus Emergency Medicine In the following case presentation, a young man who incurred orbital compartment syndrome (OCS) from physical trauma significantly improved from timely lateral canthotomy. Lateral canthotomy is recommended to be performed as soon as possible to avoid permanent vision loss, which is the most feared complication associated with orbital compartment syndrome. This procedure completely restored vision in the patient and permitted prompt discharge. Cureus 2019-07-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6721876/ /pubmed/31516769 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5057 Text en Copyright © 2019, Houck et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Houck, Jessica
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Orbital Compartment Syndrome: How a Young Man’s Vision was Saved by the Timely Actions of an Emergency Medicine Physician
title Orbital Compartment Syndrome: How a Young Man’s Vision was Saved by the Timely Actions of an Emergency Medicine Physician
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title_short Orbital Compartment Syndrome: How a Young Man’s Vision was Saved by the Timely Actions of an Emergency Medicine Physician
title_sort orbital compartment syndrome: how a young man’s vision was saved by the timely actions of an emergency medicine physician
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6721876/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5057
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