ACUTE BILATERAL BLINDNESS

Acute bilateral blindness is an emergent condition that may signal lif e-threatening disease. This article details an emergency medicine appr oach to the patient with acute bilateral blindness, and reports a case of an elderly woman whose sole presenting complaint was acute loss of vision, She was ultimately diagnosed as having pulmonary embolism, Th e approach focuses on identification of life-threatening disease proce sses, while differentiating between ocular, psychogenic, and cortical etiologies.