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Clinical Management Guidelines

The College’s Clinical Management Guidelines (CMGs) enable optometrists to make evidence-based clinical decisions on the diagnosis and treatment of 60 common and rare eye conditions that present in practice. 

Abnormalities of the pupil

Atopic keratoconjunctivitis (AKC)

Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) (periocular)

Blepharitis (lid margin disease)

Cellulitis, preseptal and orbital

Chalazion (Meibomian cyst)

CL-associated papillary conjunctivitis (CLAPC), giant papillary conjunctivitis (GPC)

Concretions

Conjunctival pigmented lesions

Conjunctival scarring

Conjunctivitis (acute allergic)

Conjunctivitis (bacterial)

Conjunctivitis (seasonal & perennial allergic)

Conjunctivitis (viral, non-herpetic)

Conjunctivitis medicamentosa (also dermatoconjunctivitis medicamentosa)

Conjunctivitis, chlamydial

Corneal (or other superficial ocular) foreign body

Corneal abrasion

Corneal hydrops

Corneal transplant rejection

Dacryocystitis (acute)

Dacryocystitis (chronic)

Dry eye (keratoconjunctivitis sicca, KCS)

Ectropion

Endophthalmitis (post-operative) (exogenous endophthalmitis)

Entropion

Episcleritis

Facial nerve palsy (Bell's palsy)

Fuchs endothelial corneal dystrophy (FECD)

Glaucoma (chronic open angle) (COAG)

Herpes simplex keratitis (HSK)

Herpes zoster ophthalmicus (HZO)

Hordeolum

Idiopathic epiretinal membrane

Keratitis (marginal)

Keratitis, CL-associated infiltrative

Microbial keratitis (acanthamoeba sp.)

Microbial keratitis (bacterial, fungal)

Molluscum contagiosum

Nasolacrimal duct obstruction (nasolacrimal drainage dysfunction)

Ocular hypertension (OHT)

Ocular rosacea

Ophthalmia neonatorum

Photokeratitis (ultraviolet [UV] burn, arc eye, snow blindness)

Phthiriasis (pediculosis ciliaris)

Pigmented fundus lesions

Pinguecula

Post-operative suture breakage

Primary angle closure / primary angle closure glaucoma (PAC / PACG)

Pterygium

Recurrent corneal epithelial erosion syndrome

Retinal vein occlusion

Scleritis

Steroid-related ocular hypertension and glaucoma

Sub-conjunctival haemorrhage

Sub-tarsal foreign body (STFB)

Trauma (blunt)

Trauma (chemical)

Trauma (penetrating)

Trichiasis

Uveitis (anterior)

Vernal keratoconjunctivitis (spring catarrh)

Vitreomacular traction and macular hole