Eye injuries
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Eye Injuries in the Workplace | myVMC
Eye injuries in the workplace: There are a range of agents found in workplaces that can cause eye diseases, disorders or injuries. While many of these agents are often also found in everyday living environments, exposure at dangerous levels is most likely to occur in the workplace.
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Eye injuries - foreign body in the eye - Better Health Channel
Don't try to remove a foreign body from your eye - go to your doctor or hospital emergency department for help.
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Fireworks injury - NT.GOV.AU
Burn injury, eye injury and fireworks safety, including sparklers and dud fireworks.
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Eye injury – flash burns | National Centre for Farmer Health
Flash burns occur when the cornea (the clear tissue that covers your eyes) has been exposed to ultraviolet light. Flash burns are like sunburn in the eye. Read more...
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Eye injuries - chemical burns - Better Health Channel
Always wear safety goggles or a face shield when handling liquid or powder chemicals.
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Eyes - flash burns - Better Health Channel
Flash burns are like sunburn in the eye and can affect both your eyes. Find out more.
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Black eye: children and teenagers | Raising Children Network
A black eye can happen if your child has a bump to the eye area. Treat black eyes at home with an ice-pack, but also have a doctor check your child’s eye.
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Projectile toys | Product Safety Australia
Children are at risk of serious eye injuries or from choking when playing with projectile toys. Always make sure children know how to play safely with these toys.
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Head and spinal injuries first aid - Better Health Channel
Head injuries can be serious and require urgent medical attention. A hard blow to the head from a fall, knock or assault can injure the brain, even when there are no visible signs of trauma to the scalp or face. Symptoms of serious head injury include wounds, altered consciousness, clear fluid leaking from the eyes or nose, black eyes or bruises behind the ears, vision changes, nausea and vomiting.
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Vegetative State - Brain Foundation
Vegetative State (Unresponsive Wakefulness Syndrome) Description A vegetative state is when a person is awake but showing no signs of awareness
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Understanding Brain Damage Locations | Ausmed
When damage occurs to the brain due to stroke, tumour, traumatic injury or other reasons, the resulting symptoms are dependent on where the brain was damaged and the extent of the damage. Symptoms may include alterations to the person’s speech, mobility, memory and even personality.
Read more on Ausmed Education website
How Our Eyes Process Light - The First Step of Seeing
This post is the second in a series about vision and visual perception. It will explore the anatomy of the eye as well as how rays of light are transformed into electrical impulses that can be transmitted along neural pathways to facilitate visual perception.
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Glaucoma Up-Close | Ausmed
Glaucoma is the name given to a range of conditions that lead to optic nerve damage. An estimated 300,000 Australians currently live with glaucoma. Half of those have not been diagnosed. A significant amount of side vision will be lost before the individual has even noticed they have a condition.
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Common Hospital Presentations Over Christmas | Ausmed
The Christmas holidays should be a happy opportunity to spend time with family and friends. Unfortunately, there is the potential for the ‘silly season’ to result in hospitalisations for many Australians.
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Hypovolaemia: Reversible Causes of Cardiac Arrest Series
Absolute hypovolaemia is the term used to describe loss of volume of fluid from the body, such as that which occurs during haemorrhage. Relative hypovolaemia is the term used when there is shifting or inappropriate redistribution of body fluids, as in major burn trauma.
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Combination psychotropic medicine use in older adults and risk of hip fracture - Australian Prescriber
There is a range of interventions that can reduce the risk of falls
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Different Types of Strokes | Ausmed
Stroke symptoms may be mobility difficulties and hemiplegia, swallowing problems, or being unable to speak and communicate. There are different types of stroke, thus different symptoms. It is important to know exactly what type of stroke your patient has had in order to predict the these symptoms.
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Wernicke–Korsakoff Syndrome (WKS) | Ausmed
Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome refers to the condition where both Wernicke encephalopathy (WE) and Korsakoff syndrome (KS) are present in one individual.
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Antihistamines and allergy | Australian Prescriber
There is now little role for sedating antihistamines in allergic conditions. Discover why they should be avoided.
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What is Dengue? Mosquito Transmitted Diseases
Dengue is caused by the dengue virus, of which there are at least four genotypes. Infection gives lifelong immunity to the infecting type but not to any of the others; infection with any of which may lead to more severe disease.
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