Raised intracranial pressure with visual threat
Educational use only. Not clinically reviewed31-year-old woman for calm papilledema, secondary-cause, visual-trajectory, and rescue handoff practice. About 7 simulated minutes.
What you will practise
- Reconcile the headache, visual, tinnitus, diplopia, neurological, physiological, and whole-patient clock.
- Activate qualified neurological, neuro-ophthalmic, imaging, and procedure ownership.
- Review confirmed papilledema, visual function, and the pseudopapilledema boundary.
- Review supplied MRI, venography, LP, secondary-cause, and diagnostic boundaries.
- At a strict later report, recognize worsening visual field as an imminent sight threat.
- After another elapsed interval, hand off vision rescue, cause, disease, headache, follow-up, and active risk.
Review and sources
Not clinically reviewed. No clinician has signed this scenario.
- Mollan SP, Davies B, Silver NC, et al. Idiopathic intracranial hypertension: consensus guidelines on management. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2018;89:1088-1100. doi:10.1136/jnnp-2017-317440.
- Wakerley BR, Mollan SP, Sinclair AJ. Idiopathic intracranial hypertension: Update on diagnosis and management. Clin Med (Lond). 2020;20:384-388. doi:10.7861/clinmed.2020-0232.
Open Sim Lab is an educational simulator, not for clinical use. It is not a clinical decision-support tool, not a dosing calculator, and is not validated for any decision affecting a real patient.