NEW VUES

Description of Event or Problem

SERIOUS INJURY INVOLVING ONE PERSON. ON 4/20, PT REPORTED TO HIS DR COMPLAINING OF TEARING, PAIN, AND PHOTOPHOBIA IN RIGHT EYE, LENS MODEL/WATER CONTENT: NEWVUES/55%; LOT #8423015; EYE INVOLVED: RIGHT: REFRACTION: MYOPIA; DURATION OF USE (MONTHS) WEARING MODALITY; TRIAL LENS PERIOD/NO REPORT OF DISPENSE DATE; NUMBER OF DAYS LENS WORN: UNK; LAST VISIT TO PRACTITIONER PRIOR TO SYMPTOMS: UNK; TYPE OF LENS CARE SYTEM USED: UNK; DISINFECTING SYSTEM USED: UNK; WAS HOMEMADE SALINE USED:NO; NUMBER OF DAYS WORN BETWEEN CLEANING AND DISINFECTING: UNK; DAYS BETWEEN CLEANING AND SYMPTOMS: UNK; DAYS BETWEEN SYMPTOMS AND CALLING DR: SAME DAY; SELF-TREATMENT BY PT: UNK; HAND WASHING BEFORE LENS MANIPULATION: UNK; ULCER LOCATION: UNK; VISUAL ACUITY BEFORE SYMPTOMS: UNK; VISUAL ACUITY AFTER SYMPTOMS: UNK; RESULTS OF CULTURE: NOT REPORTED; RESULTS OF CORNEAL BIOPSY AND/OR SCRAPINGS: UNK; CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS: PT REPORTS CORNEAL ULCER; TREATMENT ADMINISTERED: UNK; PROGNOSIS: PT STATES CONDITION IMPROVING WITH FOLLOW-UP SCHEDULED 5/07/98.