Severe Eye Injuries: Identification, Clinical Impact, and Critical Issues on Emergency Management

Abstract

Severe eye injuries are defined as “trauma resulting in permanent and significant structural or functional change to the eye or adnexa” (Kuhn 2008) that also means eye injury that requires surgical intervention and hospitalization or that can lead to visual impairment or blindness which can be described as severe. Severe eye injury is one of the major causes of visual impairment and is, therefore, a public health problem. The severity of the trauma is directly proportional to morbidity and affects the socioeconomic loss. The best way of protecting the vision in severe eye injury is prevention of the injury by education and legislation (Soylu et al. 2010). Beside this it’s not possible to prevent the eye traumas every time. In this situation the best method of regaining the lost visual acuity can be possible only by following the scientific way. This means that an ophthalmologist has to know the clinical importance of severe eye injuries and determine and define the pathology with a common terminology and has a scientific treatment strategy to achieve maximum potential of injured eye.