@article{ref1,
title="Impact of COVID-19 pandemic and national lockdown on ocular trauma at a tertiary eye care institute",
journal="Indian journal of ophthalmology",
year="2021",
author="Agrawal, Deepanshu and Parchand, Swapnil and Agrawal, Deepshikha and Chatterjee, Samrat and Gangwe, Anil and Mishra, Mihir and Sahu, Anupam",
volume="69",
number="3",
pages="709-713",
abstract="PURPOSE: To evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the national lockdown on the demographic and clinical profile of patients presenting with ocular trauma. <br><br>METHODS: In this retrospective, hospital-based, comparative analysis, patients presenting to the emergency department with ocular trauma in the following COVID-19 period (March 25, 2020 to July 31, 2020) were compared with patients in the pre-COVID-19 period (March 25, 2019 to July 31, 2019). <br><br>RESULTS: Overall, 242 patients (COVID-19 period: 71 and pre-COVID-19 period: 171) presented with ocular trauma. The mean age of the patients in COVID-19 and pre-COVID-19 periods were 26.7 ± 17.3 and 34.1 ± 20.3 years, respectively (P = 0.008). A majority of patients (68.6%) in both groups were from the rural background. Home-related injuries were common in the COVID-19 period (78.8%) as compared to pre-COVID-19 period (36.4%) (P < 0.0001). Iron particles (29.5%) were the common inflicting agents in the COVID-19 period while it was plant leaves (25.5%) in the pre-COVID-19 period. The most common ocular diagnosis was open globe injury (40.8%) in the COVID-19 period and microbial keratitis (47.9%) in the pre-COVID-19 period. Surgical intervention was required in 46.4% of patients in the COVID-19 period and 32.1% of patients in the pre-COVID-19 period (P = 0.034). <br><br>CONCLUSION: During the COVID-19 period. there was a significant decline in the number of patients presenting with ocular trauma. In this period, a majority of patients sustained ocular trauma in home-settings. About half the patients required surgical intervention which was most commonly rendered in the form of primary wound repair.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0301-4738",
doi="10.4103/ijo.IJO_3200_20",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijo.IJO_3200_20"
}