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Differential diagnosis of acute ocular pain: Teleophthalmology during COVID-19 pandemic - A perspective
Ocular pain is a common complaint which forces the patient to seek immediate medical attention. It is the primeval first response of the body to any severe condition of the eye such as trauma, infections and inflammation. The pain can be due to conditions directly affecting the eye and ocular adnexa...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7574141/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32587167 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijo.IJO_1267_20 |
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author | Murthy, Somasheila I Das, Sujata Deshpande, Parul Kaushik, Sushmita Dave, Tarjani Vivek Agashe, Prachi Goel, Nupur Soni, Anuj |
author_facet | Murthy, Somasheila I Das, Sujata Deshpande, Parul Kaushik, Sushmita Dave, Tarjani Vivek Agashe, Prachi Goel, Nupur Soni, Anuj |
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description | Ocular pain is a common complaint which forces the patient to seek immediate medical attention. It is the primeval first response of the body to any severe condition of the eye such as trauma, infections and inflammation. The pain can be due to conditions directly affecting the eye and ocular adnexa; or indirect which would manifest as referred pain from other organ structures such as the central nervous system. Paradoxically, there are several minor and non-sight threatening conditions, which also leads to ocular pain and does not merit urgent hospital visits. In this perspective, we intend to provide guidelines to the practising ophthalmologist for teleconsultation when a patient complains of pain with focus on how to differentiate the various diagnoses that can be managed over teleconsultation and those requiring emergency care in the clinic. These guidelines can decrease unnecessary hospital visits, which is the need of the hour in the pandemic era and also beyond. Patients who are under quarantine and those who are unable to travel would be benefitted, and at the same time, the burden of increased patient load in busy hospital systems can be reduced. |
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spelling | pubmed-75741412020-10-22 Differential diagnosis of acute ocular pain: Teleophthalmology during COVID-19 pandemic - A perspective Murthy, Somasheila I Das, Sujata Deshpande, Parul Kaushik, Sushmita Dave, Tarjani Vivek Agashe, Prachi Goel, Nupur Soni, Anuj Indian J Ophthalmol Current Ophthalmology Ocular pain is a common complaint which forces the patient to seek immediate medical attention. It is the primeval first response of the body to any severe condition of the eye such as trauma, infections and inflammation. The pain can be due to conditions directly affecting the eye and ocular adnexa; or indirect which would manifest as referred pain from other organ structures such as the central nervous system. Paradoxically, there are several minor and non-sight threatening conditions, which also leads to ocular pain and does not merit urgent hospital visits. In this perspective, we intend to provide guidelines to the practising ophthalmologist for teleconsultation when a patient complains of pain with focus on how to differentiate the various diagnoses that can be managed over teleconsultation and those requiring emergency care in the clinic. These guidelines can decrease unnecessary hospital visits, which is the need of the hour in the pandemic era and also beyond. Patients who are under quarantine and those who are unable to travel would be benefitted, and at the same time, the burden of increased patient load in busy hospital systems can be reduced. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020-07 2020-06-25 /pmc/articles/PMC7574141/ /pubmed/32587167 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijo.IJO_1267_20 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Indian Journal of Ophthalmology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Current Ophthalmology Murthy, Somasheila I Das, Sujata Deshpande, Parul Kaushik, Sushmita Dave, Tarjani Vivek Agashe, Prachi Goel, Nupur Soni, Anuj Differential diagnosis of acute ocular pain: Teleophthalmology during COVID-19 pandemic - A perspective |
title | Differential diagnosis of acute ocular pain: Teleophthalmology during COVID-19 pandemic - A perspective |
title_full | Differential diagnosis of acute ocular pain: Teleophthalmology during COVID-19 pandemic - A perspective |
title_fullStr | Differential diagnosis of acute ocular pain: Teleophthalmology during COVID-19 pandemic - A perspective |
title_full_unstemmed | Differential diagnosis of acute ocular pain: Teleophthalmology during COVID-19 pandemic - A perspective |
title_short | Differential diagnosis of acute ocular pain: Teleophthalmology during COVID-19 pandemic - A perspective |
title_sort | differential diagnosis of acute ocular pain: teleophthalmology during covid-19 pandemic - a perspective |
topic | Current Ophthalmology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7574141/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32587167 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijo.IJO_1267_20 |
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