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Welcome to our Eye News Survey.

Please complete and submit your answers by 3 January 2025, we will discuss these cases and your reponses in the next issue of Eye News Magazine.

1. A referral is triaged as requiring a routine appointment. What is an acceptable time to wait before any harm occurring while waiting becomes a breach of duty?

1 month
2 months
3 months
4 months
6 months
9 months
1 year
18 months

2. A referral is triaged as requiring a soon appointment. What is an acceptable time to wait before any harm occurring while waiting becomes a breach of duty?

1 week
2 weeks
3 weeks
1 month
2 months
3 months
4 months
6 months

3. A referral is triaged as requiring an urgent appointment. What is an acceptable time to wait before any harm occurring while waiting becomes a breach of duty?

24 hours
48 hours
72 hours
5 days
1 week
2 weeks
3 weeks
1 month

4. When faced with a patient with suspected postoperative endophthalmitis (hypopyon, redness, pain and reduced vision), what is an acceptable delay to first injection of antibiotics?

3 hours
4 hours
6 hours
12 hours
24 hours

5. In a patient with a macula-on retinal detachment approaching the arcade and a superotemporal retinal tear, how long is it acceptable to wait for surgery?

12 hours
24 hours
48 hours
72 hours
5 days
7 days
14 days
21 days
28 days

6. If a patient with a macula on detachment and 6/6 vision develops a macula off detachment while waiting for surgery, is it a breach of duty?

Yes
No

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