[Occupational accidents and eye injuries treated at the Rambam Medical Center].
To determine the prevalence of occupation-related eye injuries, we analyzed the records of 24,632 patients treated at our emergency surgical department over a 3-year period. Occupational accidents accounted for 17.6% of such cases. A third of them (1374 patients) were referred to the ophthalmic emergency room for further examination. In 89% (1223) of these, at least 1 pathological ocular finding was detected, and 8.3% (114) of them were hospitalized. Penetrating eye injuries were found in 5.2% (72). The commonest eye injury was corneal foreign body found in 42.8%.
Pikkel
J
J
Ophthalmology Dept., Rambam Medical Center, Haifa.
Gelfand
Y
Y
Miller
B
B
D000062:Accidents, Occupational / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003315:Cornea; D005129:Eye Foreign Bodies / Q000453:epidemiology; D005131:Eye Injuries / Q000145:classification / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D007557:Israel; D015995:Prevalence; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013997:Time Factors