Stormy Anterior Uveitis | An Eye Casualty Survival Guide

Stormy Anterior Uveitis | An Eye Casualty Survival Guide Severe anterior uveitis with 360° posterior synechiae and a limited fundus view is one of the more challenging presentations you'll face in eye casualty. In this video, I share a practical, stepwise framework for managing it confidently — from the first history and examination through to the 24-hour review. This is the kind of case where treating only what you can see isn't enough. The real skill is knowing what you might be missing behind the pupil, and having a clear pathway to work through under pressure. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔑 WHAT THIS VIDEO COVERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Taking a focused uveitis history with the red flags that matter The subtle examination details that change your management Breaking the synechiae — and keeping the pupil moving Deciding on infection suspicion before escalating Calming the storm with the right topical steroid regimen Reviewing at 24 hours and knowing when to tap, inject, or escalate ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎯 WHO IT'S FOR ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Ophthalmology trainees, eye casualty and on-call clinicians, optometrists, and anyone who wants a clear, practical approach to severe anterior uveitis. 📌 The full management flowchart is shown step by step throughout the video — feel free to pause and screenshot it for reference. 👉 In the next video, I'll walk through two real cases applying this exact framework. Subscribe so you don't miss it. 💬 How do you approach the stormy anterior chamber in casualty? Share your tips or questions in the comments — I read and reply to them. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👁️ ABOUT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Abdelsattar Nasser Farrag, FRCS(Ophth.) Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon — uveitis, medical retina & multimodal imaging. 🔔 Subscribe for practical, clinically focused ophthalmology. ⚠️ For educational purposes for healthcare professionals — does not replace local guidelines or clinical judgement. 🔗 LinkedIn:   / abdelsattarfarrag   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #Ophthalmology #Uveitis #AnteriorUveitis #EyeCasualty #FRCOphth #OphthalmologyEducation #MedicalEducation #Eye #PosteriorSynechiae #OcularEmergency #MedicalRetina #Ophthalmologis