| Descriptors |
- Manage urgent referrals efficiently, according appropriate priority to referrals based on clinical need and in accordance with local and national guidelines.
- Triage patients in the urgent eye care clinic appropriately.
- Risk-assess patient and provide treatment and follow-up appropriate for that level of risk, including referral to more experienced clinicians or for surgery where appropriate.
- Recognise where a patient is low risk and can be managed in a different clinic setting or is appropriate to be discharged back to the community.
- Manage ocular emergencies in the acute setting, following local guidelines e.g. acute glaucoma, orbital compartment syndrome, orbital cellulitis, endophthalmitis, giant cell arteritis, keratitis and acute neurological presentations.
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