A 22-Year-Old Woman Comes to the Urgent Care Clinic with a Painful

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A 22-year-old woman comes to the urgent care clinic with a painful, gritty sensation in her right eye, eyelid swelling, and photophobia for the past 2 days.  She has been studying for college exams and initially attributed her symptoms to fatigue.  The patient wears contact lenses for myopia but has been using glasses since this morning.
Physical examination shows conjunctival injection and upper eyelid swelling.  Fluorescein staining shows a 6-mm corneal defect.  Visual acuity is normal bilaterally.
Which of the following is the best next step in management of this patient?

• A)Eye patching
• B)Swab culture
• C)Topical corticosteroid
• D)Topical erythromycin
• E)Topical fluoroquinolone

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