Eye Trauma in Young Children

Managing isolated head trauma in young children.

Managing eye health in young children

• Do the best you can, and start treatment or refer the child as quickly as possible. The earlier the treatment starts, the better a child’s vision is likely to be after treatment. Even if there is no treatment, a blind baby or child still needs help to develop as normally as possible and should also be referred. • Believe the parents. Most things parents notice and mention to you are real and ...

Eye tracking young children with autism.

The rise of accessible commercial eye-tracking systems has fueled a rapid increase in their use in psychological and psychiatric research. By providing a direct, detailed and objective measure of gaze behavior, eye-tracking has become a valuable tool for examining abnormal perceptual strategies in clinical populations and has been used to identify disorder-specific characteristics, promote earl...

Eye trauma in children: epidemiology, management, and prevention.

Eye injuries in children are frequently evaluated by nurse practitioners. The child with serious eye trauma is quickly assessed and referred to an ophthalmologist. However, many of the cases are managed in the ambulatory setting. Appropriate and swift management of eye trauma is essential to ensuring optimal outcome for the child. In addition, pediatric nurse practitioners play a critical role ...

Eye Trauma

limitations, risks and complications, and instructions for monitoring devices. Part 5 consists of a chapter on the care of the technologically dependent child. One disadvantage of this partitioning is that aspects of a particular system are not always covered in the expected section; e.g., cerebral death is covered in Part 1 and therefore is not located in the "neurologic" section of Part 3. Th...