Optic Nerve Swelling? Keep Calm and Follow a Simple Set of Guidelines
Provider: Mivision
Contact: Nikki Byrne, [E] nikki@mivision.com.au, [P] 02 8336 8616
Activity Outline
It doesn’t seem to matter if you examine adults or children in your practice, the one clinical finding that tends to make any eye care professional slightly nervous is optic disc swelling.
And rightly so. We know that this clinical sign may be synonymous with serious neurological pathology. Consequently, we need to act fast, or we may mismanage the patient sitting before us. This mismanagement is two-fold: it may mean that we fail to recognise possible neurological involvement or that we over investigate the patients when we did not need to.
So how do we make this distinction? If only there was a universal protocol that we could follow.
Learning Objectives
- Understand what a papilloedema and a pseudo-papilloedema are
- Identify the common symptoms of raised intracranial pressure
- Identify the common clinical signs of advanced papilloedema
- Know who to refer to, when papilloedema is confirmed
Max CPD hours awarded: 1
Session Information
| Name |
|---|
| Optic Nerve Swelling? Keep Calm and Follow a Simple Set of Guidelines |
| Clinical? |
| Yes |
| Interactive? |
| No |
| Therapeutic? |
| No |
| Duration of CPD Session/Module |
| 0.5 |
| Duration of CPD Session/Module inclusive of Assessment Component |
| 1 |