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Case 79: Not Another Corneal Abrasion

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It is 9 p.m., and you are the attending anesthesiologist in a university hospital and on your last case. With 20 min to go, you are asked to see a female patient in the ward that has undergone a thyroidectomy about 8 h previously. She is complaining of a sore eye. You send your resident to go and see her.

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  1. Department of Anesthesia, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

    John G. Brock-Utne MA, MD, PhD, FFA(SA)

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Brock-Utne, J.G. (2017). Case 79: Not Another Corneal Abrasion. In: Clinical Anesthesia. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71467-7_79

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