AIM To study the epidemiology of ocular injuries in patients with major trauma in the UK, determining the incidence and causes of ocular injuries, and their association with facial fractures. METHODS A retrospective analysis of the Trauma Audit Research Network database from 1989 to 2004, looking at data from 39,073 patients with major trauma. RESULTS Of the 39,073 patients with major traum...

PURPOSE To determine the epidemiological characteristics of work-related eye injury in representative southwest region of China. METHODS Patients with eye injuries treated at the Ninth People's Hospital of Chongqing from 1 January 2014 to 31 December 2014 were included in the current study. All patients completed a comprehensive examination and interview. Demographic characteristics and injur...

OBJECTIVE To describe the spectrum of ocular injuries and associated visual morbidity in the pediatric and adolescent population caused by bottle rockets. METHODS Retrospective review of consecutive medical records of patients 18 years or younger seen during a recent 4-year period. Outcome measures were ocular injuries at time of visit, interventions required, visual acuity at most recent fol...

Eye injuries come at a high cost to society and are avoidable. Ocular blast injuries can be primary, from the blast wave itself; secondary, from fragments carried by the blast wind; tertiary; due to structural collapse or being thrown against a fixed object; or quaternary, from burns and indirect injuries. Ballistic eye protection significantly reduces the incidence of eye injuries and should b...

_ last two years much has been written in the journals on the treatment of war injuries of the eye,and a resume may not be out of place as the war has now approached the gates of India and air raids may occur at any time in our towns. From the experience of extensive heavy air attacks over Britain, war injuries of the eye have not been found to be very different from those in civil life, where ...

BACKGROUND Unlike hemorrhagic injuries in which direct pressure is indicated, any pressure placed on the eye after penetrating trauma can significantly worsen the injury by expulsing intraocular contents. The accepted first response measure for obvious or suspected penetrating ocular injury is placement of a rigid shield that vaults the eye so as to prevent accidental iatrogenic aggravation dur...

PURPOSE To describe the epidemiology of eye trauma presenting to a regional referral health service in New South Wales, Australia. METHODS A two-stage retrospective and prospective case series study was conducted. Patients who presented with eye trauma to Wagga Wagga Base Hospital (WWBH) emergency department (ED) during a one-year review period formed the retrospective case series (RCS). Pati...