Ocular Trauma Trends during COVID-19 Pandemic.
| Autor: | Liew TK; Department of Ophthalmology, Ampang Hospital, Selangor, Malaysia., Yong GY; Department of Ophthalmology, Ampang Hospital, Selangor, Malaysia., Zainal Abidin Z; Department of Ophthalmology, Ampang Hospital, Selangor, Malaysia., Asnir ZZ; Department of Ophthalmology, Ampang Hospital, Selangor, Malaysia. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | The Malaysian journal of medical sciences : MJMS [Malays J Med Sci] 2023 Jun; Vol. 30 (3), pp. 135-142. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Jun 27. |
| DOI: | 10.21315/mjms2023.30.3.12 |
| Abstrakt: | Background: The article aims to study the demographics and clinical characteristics of ocular trauma patients presenting to the Eye Casualty Clinic between COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 era in Ampang Hospital, Malaysia. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, data of patients presented with ocular trauma injury to the Ampang Hospital during the COVID-19 era from 18 March 2020 to 17 September 2020 were retrieved and compared with the similar period of the previous non-COVID-19 era year. Results: Among the total number of 453 patients, 76.82% ( n = 348) were predominantly males. The commonest age group was between 21 years old-40 years old (49.45%, n = 224), and the commonest location of ocular trauma injury occurred at the workplace (38.19%, n = 173); welding was the commonest work-related injury (13.83% in 2019; 12.50% in 2020). Injury-to-treatment time was significantly longer during the COVID-19 era, where patients who sought treatment within a day of injury were 27.27% ( n = 69) in 2019 and 18.50% ( n = 37) in 2020 ( P = 0.030). During the COVID-19 pandemic, patients with vision worse than 6/60 on presentation were higher at 8% compared with 3.56% before the COVID-19 pandemic (OR = 2.35; 95% CI: 1.01, 5.48; P = 0.047). Similarly, patients with a vision worse than 6/60 post-treatment during the COVID-19 period were significantly higher at 7.00% compared with 1.58% before the COVID-19 pandemic (OR = 4.72; 95% CI: 1.53, 14.62; P = 0.007). Conclusion: The majority of ocular trauma cases in this study population were male adults between 21 years old and 40 years old, and welding was the commonest work-related injury. COVID-19 era has a higher percentage of patients presented with severe visual impairment, longer injury-to-treatment time and poorer post-treatment visual outcomes. Competing Interests: Conflict of Interest None. (© Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia, 2023.) |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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