Ocular injuries—treat or refer?

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Few things in medicine strike such terror in the general physician's heart as does the injured eye, yet the initial management of such an emergency often falls to the nonophthalmologist The physician needs a systematic and simple method for evaluation of eye injuries that makes use of readily available equipment This article provides just such an approach. Indeed, after proper evaluation, many eye injuries can be handled without referral to an ophthalmologist, as the author points out