A STUDY ON CLINICAL PROFILE OF PATIENTS WITH FIRECRACKER-RELATED OCULAR INJURY IN EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT OF A TERTIARY CARE CENTER IN BUNDELKHAND REGION.
Jitendra Kumar, Amit Rao, Shikha Tolia- General Medicine
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Background: In India, injuries from recracker are quite common. They are primarily utilised throughout the many Indian festivals. Injuries caused by recrackers in the emergency department (ED) are proled and their results are examined in this study. The objective of this research was to document ca Purpose: ses of sight-threatening ocular injuries caused byrecrackers. Retrospective analysis was done on the medical records of 14 pati Methods: ents who visited the institute within a week of the Diwali festival in October 2022 and had 14 eyes that had been damaged by reworks during other celebrations. The information gathered covered patient demographics (age, sex), ocular characteristics that were present, management, and results. Medical care was provided for ocular injuries of grades I and II. Amniotic membrane transplantation was used to treat all grade III–V injuries. Results: All of the 14 patients who were seen were male and ranged in age from 6 to 42 (mean age group 18 years). Four of them were hurt by bottle rockets, while eight of them were hurt by exploding recrackers. Five of the patients were either spectators or onlookers while the other six were active in lighting recrackers. Out of 14 patients, 6 had problems with their right eye (RE), 4 had problems with their left eye (LE), and 1 had problems with both eyes (BE). Two eyes had moderate conjunctival congestion and a supercial burn over the periorbital area, two eyes had conjunctival injury and one eye had a vitreous haemorrhage, two eyes had traumatic detachment of the retina, and one eye had an avulsed optical nerve. There were 14 eyes total. Six eyes had open globe perforating injuries involving the cornea or the cornea and sclera both. The majority of damaged eyes have an OTSS score of II, which indicates a poor prognosis for visual acuity. A deciency of limbal stem cells in Conclusions: young people due to ocular trauma might cause corneal blindness. In this age group, eyesight loss can result in both cosmetic abnormalities and a loss of economic productivity. Therefore, additional advocacy work is required to stop these injuries.