Treatment of traumatic hyphaema.

Abstract

THE treatment of traumatic hyphaema has attracted increasing attention since the second world war, but the assessment of various methods has often been based on restricted series, especially in regard to the use of mydriatics and of cortisone, and the non-medicinal treatment in nearly every series consisted of binocular or pinpoint spectacles. Smith (1952) used pilocarpine if the hyphaema was more than 6 mm. high. O'Neill (1952) also used pilocarpine, but in combination with neosynephrine. According to Laughlin (1948), the best drug was atropine. A milder mydriatic or homatropine was recommended by Lock (1950), Thygeson and Beard (1952), Hogan (1952), and Loring (1958).