title: Profile of ocular trauma in industries-related hospital.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Ocular trauma is a worldwide cause of visual morbidity, a significant proportion of which occurs in the industrial workplace and includes a spectrum of simple ocular surface foreign bodies, abrasions to devastating perforating injuries causing blindness. Being preventable is of social and medical concern.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  A prospective case series study, to know the profile of ocular trauma at a hospital caters exclusively to factory employees and their families, to co-relate their demographic and clinical profile and to identify the risk factors.
  
  
  METHODS
  Patients with ocular trauma who presented at ESIC Model hospital, Rajajinagar, Bangalore, from June 2010 to May 2011 were taken a detailed demographic data, nature and cause of injury, time interval between the time of injury and presentation along with any treatment received. Ocular evaluation including visual acuity, anterior and posterior segment findings, intra-ocular pressure and gonio-scopy in closed globe injuries, X-rays for intraocular foreign body, B-scan and CT scan were done. Data analyzed as per the ocular trauma classification group. The rehabilitation undertaken medically or surgically was analyzed. At follow-up, the final best corrected visual acuity was noted.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A total of 306 cases of ocular trauma were reported; predominantly in 20-40 year age group (72.2%) and in men (75%). The work place related cases were 50.7%and of these, fall of foreign bodies led the list. Visual prognosis was poorer in road traffic accidents rather than work place injuries owing to higher occurrence of open globe injuries and optic neuropathy. Finally, 11% of injured cases ended up with poor vision.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Targeting groups most at risk, providing effective eye protection, and developing workplace safety cultures may together reduce occupational eye injuries.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, Employees State Insurance Corporation, Medical College and Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Center, Rajajinagar, Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Shashikala
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, Employees State Insurance Corporation, Medical College and Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Center, Rajajinagar, Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
authors.forename: Mohammed
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sadiqulla
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, Employees State Insurance Corporation, Medical College and Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Center, Rajajinagar, Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Shivakumar
authors.affiliation: Department of Community Medicine, Adhichunchanagiri Institute of Medical Sciences, Bellur, Karnataka, India.
authors.forename: K H
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Prakash
keywords: Eye injuries; occupational eye injury; trauma