A young female experienced a laceration to her left eyeball from flying glass when her boyfriend broke a soda bottle against a wall. There is moderate bleeding and the patient states that she cannot see out of the injured eye. You should:
A. avoid applying pressure to the globe when you are covering her eye.
B. apply firm direct pressure to the injured eye and cover the opposite eye.
C. carefully examine her eye and remove any foreign objects if needed.
D. ask her to move the injured eye to assess the integrity of the optic nerve.
Answer: A. avoid applying pressure to the globe when you are covering her eye.
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