Chemical Eye Injuries

The epidemiology of chemical eye injuries.

PURPOSE To describe the epidemiology and identify categories of agents involved in chemical eye injuries. METHODS Retrospective case series of consecutive cases of chemical eye injury presenting to the emergency department (ED) at a large eye hospital. Six-hundred and thirty-three patients presented to the ED between January 1, 2006 and December 31, 2009 for treatment of 640 chemical eye inju...

Chemical eye injuries: presentation and management difficulties.

BACKGROUND/PURPOSE To review the pattern of presentation and management difficulty of patients with ocular chemical bums. METHOD Retrospective study of all patients with ocular burns seen over 8-year period (March 1998-April 2006) in the eye clinic as well as the plastic and reconstructive surgery unit of our hospital. Case files were retrieved and relevant information extracted and analyzed....

Common eye drops and their implications for pH measurements in the management of chemical eye injuries.

Chemical Injuries

During the past century, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of chemicals produced. Worldwide, there are more than 5 million known chemicals, with an additional 10,000 to 20,000 new chemicals developed each year. Furthermore, an estimated 500,000 unique shipments of hazardous materials occur daily throughout the United States, resulting in thousands of exposures to hazardous materi...

Self-inflicted eye injuries.

Five cases of self-inflicted eye injury are described and discussed. A review of the literature shows that several psychiatric diagnoses have been assigned to people who damage their eyes. A variety of mechanisms to explain this phenomenon are described.