Epidemiology of ocular trauma in outpatients referred to 5-Azar hospital in Gorgan during 2017 and 2018

Purpose: Traumatic ocular injuries are one of the most important reasons of visual loss in the world(1-5). The aim of this study is to determine the epidemiology and type of eye trauma in outpatients at 5-Azar hospital in Gorgan Methods: In this retrospective study, 849 outpatients who referred to the trauma center of 5-Azar hospital in Gorgan due to eye trauma were enrolled. All information including age, sex,type of eye trauma (blunt or penetrating trauma), etc , were extracted from their records. Data were analyzed using SPSS-16. Results: In this study 712 (83.87%) of the patients were male and 137 (16.13%) were female. The mean age of the patients was 29.65. Most of them were in their third (22.6%) and first decade (22.2%), respectively.The most common cause was blunt trauma (82%) ,in this group foreign body (extra-ocular) was the most cause (76.75%).Subconjunctival hemorrhage, hyphema, and lid echymosis were also seen in 6, 5.6, and 5.6% of patients, respectively. In penetrating trauma (10.36%): partial thickness corneal laceration and full thickness corneal laceration were seen in 70.07% of patients as well as scleral laceration in 25% of cases. About 32.62% of this cases required surgery. Conclusion: The most common causes of trauma was extraocular foreign body in workplace and the most common age was the third decade of life that people have more activity, so this kind of trauma could be prevented with improving the safety in workplace.