Purpose: This is the first population-based descriptive study of hospitalised eye injuries in New South Wales (NSW), Australia that also estimates the cost of these injures to the health system. The purpose is to describe the incidence and cause of hospitalised eye injuries in NSW from 1 July 2000 to 30 June 2005. Method: Hospitalised eye injuries in NSW were obtained from information recorded ...

purpose: to determine the nature and types of household eye injuries. methods: we prospectively analyzed data from 100 consecutive patients with household eye injuries (104 eyes) referred to emergency room of farabi eye hospital during october 2003. standardized international classification of ocular trauma (birmingham eye trauma terminology) was used for classification. results: household ocul...

BACKGROUND This paper reports on the aetiology and outcome of childhood open and closed globe eye injuries presenting to the Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, Australia from January 2000 to December 2008. DESIGN Hospital-based retrospective study. PARTICIPANTS Two hundred three cases of childhood eye injuries identified in a nine-year period, comprising 81 open globe and 122 closed g...

OBJECTIVES To assess incidence rates of eye injuries in the US Armed Forces and to identify demographic and occupational correlates of risk. DESIGN Retrospective population-based study. SETTING US military medical facilities worldwide. PARTICIPANTS All individuals in the US Armed Forces during 1998. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Incidence rates of hospitalizations and ambulatory visits for eye ...

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.

The records of the 118 patients treated as Southampton Eye Hospital during 1978-9 for injuries incurred while playing squash, badminton, tennis, table tennis, cricket, and football show that for squash the main cause of eye injury was the player being hit by the ball. Severe eye injuries--those requiring treatment as an inpatient--were rare but much more frequent than such injuries in other spo...

We report a retrospective study of children's eye injuries treated during 1977 at Helsinki University Eye Hospital. There were 110 cases representing 34.5% of all eye injuries and 3% of all patients treated in 1977; 81.8% were boys and 18.2% girls. Half of the injuries were caused by another child, one-third were self-inflicted, and the rest were other accidents. The risk of eye injury in girls...