Current status of emergency treatment of chemical eye burns in workplaces

作     者：Kevin Claassen Dominique Rodil Dos Anjos Horst Christoph Broding 

作者机构：Faculty of Health Department of Human MedicineOccupational Medicine and Corporate Health ManagementWitten/Herdecke University 

出 版 物：《International Journal of Ophthalmology(English edition)》 (国际眼科杂志（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2021年第14卷第2期

页      面：306-309页

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学科分类：1002[医学-临床医学] 100212[医学-眼科学] 10[医学] 

主　　题：eye burns occupational medicine emergency treatment rinse solutions 

摘      要：Chemical eye burns present an avoidable,but frequent,occupational injury with potentially detrimental consequences for the quality of life and occupational rehabilitation of the injured.A periodical review of guidelines is required to assure the optimal emergency *** reviewed the literature with emphasis on current German guidelines,primarily *** the crucial first-line measure,the injury prevention has failed and an eye burn has been sustained,the immediate and copious rinsing of the eye is the pivotal emergency treatment *** the immediacy and sufficiency of the emergency rinsing are largely unanimous,there is an ongoing debate about the benefits and risks of specific rinsing solutions,and regular updates on guidelines and recommendations for the emergency treatment are *** easiest and readily available rinsing solution is tap water,which fulfils the crucial criteria conveniently in most industrialized countries:purity,sterility,and neutral p *** rinsing solutions are proposing higher osmolality to stabilize the physiological p H,because of their superior buffering ***,there is no compelling evidence for a substantial benefit,and some reports suggest that there could be unwanted side *** combination with the substantially increased expenditure and a more complex handling procedure,currently a general recommendation of any other solution than tap water is not warranted.