Table 1.
Characteristics of patients hospitalized with eye injury diagnoses over a 10-year period (1stJanuary 2001–31stDecember 2010).
Figure 1.
Frequency of types of eye injuries by age and gender.
The majority of injuries (56.2%) occurring in males were distributed in the 15–44 age groups; the most frequent injury cause were related to work (70.0%), violence (16.3%), and road traffic (6.2%). The majority of injuries (36.0%) occurring in females were distributed in the 0–14 age group; the most frequent injury cause were related to the home (72.1%), violence (9.6%), and sports (3.8%).
Table 2.
Causative agents of the most frequent injury categories by gender.
Figure 2.
Incidence times of work-related and home-related eye injuries in males and females, respectively, plotted over a one-day period.
Work-related eye injuries in males were spread throughout the day and night, with most injuries occurring during 16∶00–17∶00 (12.3%); home-related injuries in females primarily occurred during 21∶00–22∶00 (16.4%). The radial numbers are a count of patients for the entire 10-year period and the circumferential numbers are the hours of the day.
Table 3.
Non-surgical and surgical management reports from initial presentation to final follow up in eye injury cases.
Table 4.
A comparison of final visual acuity and presenting visual acuity.
Table 5.
Correlation of the final visual acuity category with the Ocular Trauma Score in 3219 eyes.