OCULAR TRAUMA CASES APPLIED
TO EMERGENCY SERVICE OF CELAL BAYAR UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
Dizdar
MG., Asirdizer M., Yavuz MS.
3th National Forensic Medicine Congress, 17-20 April 2008, Goynuk-Antalya.
Abstract Book of Congress. 2008:18
Abstract:
The injuries due to ocular trauma are one of reasons, which
cause to social and economic losses in the life of peoples and communities.
Aims of this study are the definition of reasons of injuries
occurred due to ocular trauma and the disturbance of ages and genders of victims, the examination of correlation between the
types of injuries and mounts and hours, and the evaluation of harassments due to traumas.
In this study, was retrospectively reviewed the archive of
hospital. It was defined that there were 91 ocular trauma cases among the all cases applied in 2006 year. Of cases, 74.7 %
(n = 68) was male and 25.3 % (n =23) was female. The most of cases (n =26; 28.6 %) was in 30-39 ages group. The primary cause
of injuries (n=46; 50.5
%) was work accidents and ocular foreign body was defined in the most of cases (n=39; % 42.8).
We think that the results obtained in this study
which applied for definition of injuries due to ocular trauma, will supply an important aid for prevents especially need to
business.
Keywords: Eye, ocular
trauma, emergency cases, medical records.
