DR. HEENA PATEL

DR. MEHUL SHAH, DR. SHREYA SHAH, DR.ASHIT HASMUKHLAL SHAH

Abstract

OBJECTIVE:TO STUDY THE CLINICAL PROFILE AND CONSEQUENCES OF OCULAR TRAUMA

METHODS:AFTER HAVING PERMISSION FROM ETHICAL COMMITTEE WE RETRIVED DATA FROM ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD FOR LAST TWO YEARS FOR OCULAR TRAUMA FROM 1/07/19-1/08/21 IN SPECIFIC FORMAT USING EXCEL SHEET AND ANALYSED WITH SPSS 22. DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSES AND CROSS TABULATION FUNCTION HAS BEEN USED TO ANALYSE AND P<0.05 CONSIDERED SIGNIFICANT RESULTS: OUR COHORT CONSIST OF 1701 EYES 31.1% FEMALE AND 68.8% MALE . .Patients were aged bTW 0 and 89 years(mean Age 34.16±20.184). Max patients Have rural background (95.6%).Majority of trauma occurred at workplace(31.4%).Most common source was wooden objecT (27.7%).34%treated surgicaly and66% medicalY. Pateints f/up at 1week,1month and 3months upto 2years.17.5% of the eyes showed poor outcome. CONCLUSION :The low frequency of eye protective device use reinforces the need for a better understanding of the limitations of existing occupational eye safety programmes.