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Ultraviolet Radiation Corneal Injury (Snowblindness, Welder's Arc Burn)

Purpose: To evaluate a patient for ultraviolet radiation injury to the cornea and conjunctiva.

Evaluation

Are you evaluating a patient who has been exposed to ultraviolet light?

Was the patient exposed to any of the following for an hour or more?

• snow on a sunny day?

• welding?

• tanning bed?

• phototherapy?

• another UV light source?

Was the patient wearing proper eye protection?

Did clinical symptoms begin within 24 hours of exposure?

Does the patient have ...

• ocular pain?

• photophobia?

• a feeling of an ocular foreign body?

• erythema of the eyelids?

• tearing?

• conjunctival injection?

• corneal edema?

Results

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Specialty

Objective

ICD-10