Open AccessProfile of ocular trauma in industries-related hospital
Author(s) -
P Shashikala,
Mohammed Sadiqulla,
D. K. Shivakumar,
KH Prakash
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
indian journal of occupational and environmental medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.375
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1998-3670
pISSN - 0973-2284
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5278.123168
Subject(s) - medicine , visual acuity , posterior segment of eyeball , presentation (obstetrics) , blindness , rehabilitation , eye injuries , injury prevention , poison control , surgery , pediatrics , optometry , emergency medicine , physical therapy
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.
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