Injecting Liquid Antiseptic beneath the Conjunctiva for Inflammatory Red Eye

Abstract

Karan R. Aggarwala, Harry Engel and Robert Ritch

Many types of inflammatory red eye have been described in standard textbooks written and published the world over, for training ophthalmology resident doctors and optometric physicians, but the inflammatory acute red eye patient may suddenly appear at a general clinic where nurses can be found, but not eye doctors. In this review paper we summarize a management strategy and formalized protocol that can be used in a general clinic by trained nurses and also by certified emergency medical technicians, EMTs. The reading list at the end should serve you well to better understand and better implement your own custom stratagem. What method you choose, depends on what antimicrobial antiseptic agents can be obtained in your geographic region and which ones might be easily purchased for your medical emergency room or casualty clinic.

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