Victoria is 75 years old and she came into the ED for a retinal detachment
a. Discuss and explain what this is.
b. What are the causes?
c. What are the current treatments?
Students' answers should include the following:
a. Sensory layer and the pigmented layer are separated, thus denying the sensory layer of blood.
Due to trauma, tumors, hemorrhage, penetrating injury, or surgery
Vitreous fluid moves between the two layers, causing further separation.
b. Three types of separation—tractional, exudative, and rhegmatogenous
Symptoms include flashes of light, curtain over the client's vision, moving particles or floaters, not painful, and client is anxious.
c. Surgical interventions to repair and reattach retina include cryopexy, laser surgery, retinopexy, and sclera buckling.
?Bed rest, sedation, eye patch, and mydriatic eye drops to dilate pupil
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