For Referrers
Please send us all referrals to reception and provide a hard copy to the patient to give to their specialist doctor. Please use the following electronic options to send referrals to reception:
Kingswood Eye Centre
[email protected]
Oculo
Healthlink – kingweye
Argus – [email protected]
Fax – 08 8271 9809
Hills Eye Centre
[email protected]
Oculo
Argus – [email protected]
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Triage Guidelines for Referrers
Emergencies:
For these conditions, please ask the patient to go to the Emergency Department immediately:
- Transient Ischaemic Attack (TIA) with temporary loss of vision or double vision. See further information here.
- Penetrating eye injury
- Chemical burns/toxins splashed into eye
Same day:
- Post eye injection/eye surgery (within a week of injection/surgery) with
- Pain
- Redness
- Drop-in visual acuity / increased blurriness
- Severe eye pain, semi dilated pupil, cloudy cornea
- Sudden vision loss (on the same day)
- High intraocular pressures
- Foreign body
- Forceful trauma to eye
- Shadow/curtain covering part of the field of vision
Within 24 hours:
- Sudden onset (within days) loss of vision
- Sudden onset (within days) double vision
- Acute unilateral red eye
- Patients with history of uveitis/iritis flare up
Within 48 hours:
- Flashes, if associated with vision loss, to be seen within 24hrs
- A sudden increase in number of floaters (especially with history of retinal detachment)
Within 1 week:
- Recent onset (weeks) of
- Decreased vision
- Blurred vision
- Double vision
- Distorted vision
- Aged-related macular degeneration
Non-urgent:
- Conjunctivitis
- Blepharitis
- Chalazion/cyst
- Dry eyes
- Watery eyes
- Cataracts
- Strabismus
- Pterygium
- Drooping eyelids
- Glaucoma (if intraocular pressures less than 30)
- Diabetic eye check
- Visual aura/ migraine
Please contact reception for further information or to book an appointment.
