Practice / How urgent?
Now, today, this week or routine
22 presentations. The scale is the one used across OphthoSpace; the cost of under-triage is counted separately, because calling an emergency routine is the mistake that loses an eye.
- Emergent: now
- Minutes to hours change the outcome. The on-call ophthalmologist, tonight.
- Urgent: same day
- Seen today. The eye is at risk within days if it is missed.
- Soon: days
- An early clinic appointment, within a week or two.
- Routine: weeks
- Reassurance or a routine referral. Safety-net advice for the things that would change it.
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A 48-year-old at annual diabetic screening has a few dot haemorrhages and microaneurysms outside the macula and no symptoms.
How soon must this be seen?
Educational, for recognition. The management of a real patient belongs to the ophthalmologist on call. The conditions are taught on the emergencies page.