Serious eye injury caused by rotating wire brushes

Serious eye injury caused by rotating wire brushes.

CASE 1 A 69-year-old male general maintenance labourer attended eye casualty with a history of blurred vision in his left eye. He had been using an electrically driven wire brush at work when a fragment of wire broke off the brush hitting his eye. On examination, the patient had a visual acuity of 6/9 in his right eye and 6/36 in his left. He had a full thickness corneal perforation at the 6 o'...

Serious eye injuries caused by bottles containing carbonated drinks.

AIM To analyse serious eye injuries caused by bottles containing pressurised drinks. METHODS Retrospective review of the databases of US, Hungarian, and Mexican eye injury registries. RESULTS In the combined database (12 889 injuries), 90 cases (0.7%) were caused by bottle tops or glass splinters. The incidence varied widely: 0.3% (United States), 3.1% (Hungary), and 0.9% (Mexico), as did t...

Serious eye injuries caused by the civil disturbances in Belfast.

INTRODUCrION Trauma is the commonest cause of eye disease. In the five years up to August 1969, 376 perforating eye injuries were treated in the Eye & Ear Clinic, Royal Victoria Hospital, the main causes being accidents and play in children, and road traffic accidents in adults. Only twenty-one were due to assault, usually with the list or broken glass, one was due to a butt with the head and o...

Serious Penetrating Craniocerebral Injury Caused by a Nail Gun

Penetrating cerebral injuries caused by foreign bodies occur rarely due to the substantial mechanical protection offered by the skull. Throughout most of history, the brain, residing in a "closed box" of bone, has not been vulnerable to external aggression. Recently, we encountered a serious penetrating craniocerebral injury caused by a nail gun. Total excision of the offending nail via emergen...

[Caustic injury to the eye caused by Rheunervol].