OPHTHALMOLOGY

OPHTHALMOLOGY

“Based on facts, the pupil of your eye can expand as much as 45% while looking at someone you love.”

                This was one of the rotation I enjoyed in clerkship. Most of the patient’s condition were benign and you have a lot of time to rest. In ophthalmology, most of the patients seen in the emergency room were eye redness, eye itching or eye discharges. Most of the cases I’ve seen during our duty were cases of viral or bacterial conjunctivitis. Some were foreign body conjunctivitis were we manually removed the foreign material. Some of the cases were subconjunctival hemorrhage wherein treatment were only reassurance that it will subside after 2-3 weeks.

                In the OPD, most of the cases seen were error of refraction, cataract and glaucoma. There were also cases of pinguecula and pterygium that I only see in the books before. In the operating room, majority of the cases were phacoemulsification of the cataract. We were also observed on trabeculectomy for patients with glaucoma, removal of pterygium, and avastin injection.

                During our time, we had admitted an eight year old boy due to a case of preseptal cellulitis. I thought that it was just a simple case since it was just a bacterial infection but the complications were not good as you were at risk for meningitis because our eyes were near to our brain. They were aggressive in treating the patient and was given load of IV clindamycin and gentamicin.

                In overall, I really enjoyed my rotation in ophthalmologist because I learned how to treat simple eye conditions that most of the people encounter. Also, it was a relaxing rotation since cases were only benign and easy to manage unlike in other rotations.