Triage emergencies

• Chemical or other toxins splashed in to the eye within the last hour

• Sudden loss or decrease of vision, or the appearance of a cloudy veil of the eye

• Penetrating ocular injury forceful

• Forceful trauma to the eye or adnexa

• Sudden onset of halos around lights especially if associated with red painful eye or brow

• Sudden onset of persistent severe pain around the eye or severe pain on movement of the eye

•  Foreign body in the eye or the suspicion of such

• Sudden onset of diplopia (double vision, not blur)

• Sudden flashing lights and or floaters Sudden onset of drooping eyelids

• Sudden onset of a persistent red eye with or without pain, visual disturbance, or crusting