Abstract

VIQUEZ VIQUEZ, Marco Vinicio. Manage in primary care of  foreign bodies in the eye. Rev. costarric. salud pública [online]. 2012, vol.21, n.2, pp.111-115. ISSN 1409-1429.

Probably the most frequent presentation of ocular trauma is foreign bodies in the eye; it is a usual consultation in the emergency service, and most are associated to foreign bodies in the cornea or at the tarsus. SincetheaccesstoophthalmologicconsultationinCostaRica is limited, the Emergency Service in Valverde Vega needed to update procedures for a correct management of foreign bodies in the eye, in order to give the best attention possible to those pathologies. During this process we concluded that the management of the foreign bodies has evolved from the basic training the physicians had in medical school.

Keywords : cornea; blepharospasm; photophobia; miosis.

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