Roleplaying Doctor: Eye Injuries

• Eye wound
• This is where the eye is cut, bruise, or chipped with fragments of metal, grit and glass.
• All eye-wounds can be serious due to the risk of the casualty's vision.
• Superficial grazes to surface of the eye can lead to scarring or infection.
• Always the possibility of permanent deterioration of vision.
• Recognition
• Pain.
• Visible wound or bloodshot eyes.
• Partial or complete loss of vision.
• Leaking blood or a clear fluid from a wound.
• Aim
• To prevent further damage.
• Treatment
• Lie them on their back.
• Keep their head as still as possible and tell them to keep both eyes still.
• Their eyes moving will inflict more damage potentially.
• Removing anything sticking to the eye or embedded inside could lead to permanent damage.
• Foreign object in the eye
• Grit, loose eyelashes.
• Recognition
• Blurry vision.
• Pain/discomfort.
• Redness and watering eyes.
• Eyelids screwed up in spasm of pain.
• Aim
• Prevent further damage.
• Treatment
• Ask them not to rub their eye.
• Sit them down facing a light.
• Stand beside or just behind. Separate their eyelids with thumbs and fingers. Ask them to look left, right, up and down. Examine every part of their eye as they do this.
• If you spot a foreign object on the white of the eye, wash out by pouring clean water from a glass or jug. Put a towel around their shoulders. Hold the eye open and pour water from the inner corner of the eye.
• If unsuccessful, try lifting the object off with a moist swab or handkerchief.
• Chemical burn
• Toxins, acids etc.
• Recognition
• Intense pain.
• Inability to open eye.
• Redness and swelling.
• Copious watering of eye.
• Chemical substances nearby.
• Aim
• Disperse harmful chemical.
• Treatment
• Cover hands with gloves.
• Irrigate eyelid both inside and out with cold water for around 10 minutes.
• If eyelid is shut during irrigation, gently but firmly pry open if victim is unable to comply.
• Pour water over the eye using a glass or jug.
• Ask the casualty to hold a clean, non-fluffy pad over the eye.
• Flash burn to the eye
• When eye is exposed to bright light/exposure to ultraviolet light.
• Recognition
• Gritty feeling in the eyes.
• Sensitivity to light.
• Redness and watering of eyes.
• Intense pain in affected eye(s).
• Aims
• Prevent further damage.
• Treatment
• Ask them to hold a pad against each injured eye, bandage in place.
• Incapacitation Spray Exposure
• Likely this would be effective if you get a slither mage producing horrible toxins in the air etc.
• Recognition
• Burning sensation and watering of eyes.
• Sneezing and runny nose.
• Stinging sensation on skin with redness and possibly blistering.
• Difficulty breathing.
• Aim
• Remove the casualty from the gaseous/spray area.
• Treatment
• Place gloves on if handeling objects such as clothing.
• Move casualty to a well ventilated area with a free flow of air to disperse the spray present on them.
• Casualty may want to wash their skin with soap and water.
• Showering may release trapped gaseous particles.
• If asthmatic they might have an attack when sprayed.

At this point you've probably realised that the treatment is incredibly basic. Well in the medieval setting of Massivecraft, there won't actually be any amazing cures etc. Different herbs might be applied, but in terms of basic technique this is all you can likely do. In each treatment, if serious enough, call for your local light mage! Healing magic ftw!