BY WILLIAM E. "GENE" GANDY, JD, LP AND STEVEN "KELLY" GRAYSON, NREMT-P, CCEMT-P ON APR 5, 2011
It has been said the eyes are the windows to the soul. In emergency medicine, much can be learned from a routine eye examination. This article will review both techniques and evaluation of findings.
Scenario
You arrive at a local nursing home to care for a patient who has become unresponsive. During your routine examination, you discover that both of his pupils are less than 1 mm wide, nonreactive and barely discernable.