AIM To quantify and characterize children and adolescent eye injuries treated in trauma *** A retrospective analysis was conducted of children and adolescent patients(0-19 years of age) with eye injuries using the Bri...
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AIM To quantify and characterize children and adolescent eye injuries treated in trauma *** A retrospective analysis was conducted of children and adolescent patients(0-19 years of age) with eye injuries using the British Columbia Trauma Registry(BCTR) data. BCTR data was obtained from January 1,2000 to December 31,2008. The BCTR provides the most detailed information on severe injuries throughout the province of BC. There are 12 trauma-receiving facilities in BC from which BCTR collects *** A total of 162 patients with eye injuries were registered in BCTR during the data collection period. The highest number of injuries occurred in the 15-19 age group,followed by 10-14 and 5-9 age groups. Seventy-one point six percent of all patients were male. The mean age for all patients was 12.9(SD = 5.8) years. Vehicular crash was by far the most common mechanism of injury among all patients(42.0%) followed by blunt injury(14.2%) and cuts(12.3%). The child and adolescent eyeinjury data set we used for our study indicated that there were in total,50 patients that were tested for alcohol and drug use. The majority of them were 15-19 years of age(n = 38). Among the tested eye injury patients in the 15-19 age group,47%(18/38) tested positive for alcohol. There were approximately 30 cases of physical fighting(assault) and fighting-related injury among adolescents. Some injuries were caused by use of fire arms and knife during the assaults. Out of all patients,62(38%) were seen by an Ophthalmologist on admission,whereas 100(62%) patients were not seen by an eye specialist on admission. The most common injury diagnosis among the patients not consulted by ophthalmologist was conjunctiva injury(53%),whereas almost 9 out of 10 patients with ophthalmological consultation had laceration of cornea injury diagnoses. Using Glasgow Coma Scale(GCS)-based classification of brain injury severity,3.7% of all patients were classified with severe brain injury(GCS ≤ 8),while
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