Contact lenses and a painful red eye

Setting: Urgent optometry clinic

Alex Moore, 26, has worn contact lenses through a day of increasing right-eye pain and redness. Glasses are available at home; no cause has yet been established.

Task

Explore the painful red eye and event-related lens request.
Explain same-day assessment and stopping lens wear pending assessment.
Discuss available spectacles for the party.
Decline to diagnose the cause or approve a shorter lens-wearing interval.

Contact lenses and a painful red eye consultation plan

The supplied pathway requires same-day clinical assessment for this presentation.
The patient should leave the lenses out while awaiting that assessment.
The optometrist will arrange the assessment rather than diagnose the cause from the conversation alone.
The patient has spectacles available and can use them while lens wear is paused.
Alex Moore, 26, has worn contact lenses through a day of increasing right-eye pain and redness. Glasses are available at home; no cause has yet been established.

Fictional scenario information supplied for this examination exercise; not medical guidance for real patients.