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Here's some tips for eye care:
- wear something in front of your eyes as often as possible
- if you work in an environment that poses a risk to your eyes, take all possible precautions, all of the time
- if you get something in your eye.....DON'T RUB IT (which is the first instinct I know) but irrigate ASAP. Try to minimize blinking by keeping it closed..just do the best you can under very difficult conditions.
- if you still have the sensation of a foreign body after irrigating, see someone about it.
- DO NOT numb your own eye..it could mask a huge problem and allow it to get worse
- corneal abrasions are not benign.. Can develop corneal ulcers or lacerations or it could be a penetration into the eye.
- binocular vision is a precious commodity...you have to protect it
- monocular vision works but is less forgiving for certain duties and really screws with a sense of overall awareness.
Just a few tips as a public service announcement.
ss
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'Revel in action, translate perceptions into instant judgements, and these into actions that are irrevocable, monumentous and dreadful - all this with lightning speed, in conditions of great stress and in an environment of high tension:what is expected of "us" is the impossible, yet we deliver just that.
(adapted from: Sherwin B. Nuland, MD, surgeon and author: The Wisdom of the Body, 1997 )
Education is the anti-ignorance we all need to better treat our patients. ss, 2008.
The blade is so sharp that the incision is perfect. They don't realize they've been cut until they're out of the fight: A Surgeon Warrior. I use a knife to defend life and to save it. ss (aka traumadoc)
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