Ocular Laser Exposure Incident Reporting

Ocular injuries from accidental laser exposure.

This report presents 29 cases of ocular injury (31 eyes) caused by accidental laser exposure. Twenty-eight eyes were injured during laser adjustment and alignment. Nineteen eyes were damaged by Q-switched lasers at a wavelength of 1064 nm. Macula damage occurred in 25 eyes. During the early phase after injury, there were different degrees of retinal coagulation, edema or hemorrhage in exposed s...

Incident reporting in anaesthesiology.

Incident reporting can be a powerful tool to detect weaknesses in the complex system of anaesthesiology. Having its roots in aviation, incident reporting today is used in a variety of medical disciplines at the local and even on the national level. Strength of incident reporting is the potential for learning from rare and potentially dangerous events. To properly set up an incident reporting sy...

Chapter 4. Incident Reporting

Critical incident reporting and learning.

Editor—We were interested to read the article of Professor Mahajan and concur with his view that safety can be improved by learning from incidents and near misses. 1 Furthermore , we agree that investigation of incidents should not underestimate the potential of analysing incidents that are near misses or which have not led to patient harm. 1 We also accept that under-reporting of incidents by ...

Band keratopathy after ocular exposure to visible laser radiation.

Band keratopathy is a degenerative condi­ tion of the superficial cornea characterized by the deposition of calcium salts in its ex­ posed interpalpebral portion. The pathogenesis of the lesion is not clear, although multi­ ple etiologic factors have been determined. The association of band keratopathy with abnormalities of calcium, phosphorus, and vitamin D metabolism, and with chronic intraoc...