Foreign body removed from cornea with a needle (Video)

length: 33 seconds

This video shows a small piece of metal stuck to the surface of the eye. It is removed from the cornea using an 18 gauge needle at the slit-lamp microscope. Particles like this need to be removed because they are painful, rust quickly, and can lead to infection and corneal ulcer. Sometimes it is possible to remove this debris with only a cotton tip qtip (and this is the only way I recommend non-ophthalmologists attempt this).

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