Epidemiology of children and adolescent eye injuries in British Columbia

Table 5 Children and adolescent eye injuries by type of eye injury and by ophthalmology consultation status, British Columbia Trauma Registry, 2000-2008

Type of eye injury	Ophthalmology	No ophthalmology consultation, n	Total, n
	consultation, n
Eye, conjunctiva injury	19	53	72
Eye, cornea, laceration	54	2	56
Eye, not further specified	7	20	27
Eye, cornea, abrasion	9	17	26
Eye, sclera laceration, involving globe (includes rupture)/eye, cornea, contusion (includes hyphema)	36	5	41
Eye, vitreous injury/eye, canaliculus (tear duct) laceration	14	5	19
Eye, iris laceration/eye, retina laceration/eye, sclera laceration	20	0	20
Other	0	7	7
Total	159	109	2681

Numbers fewer than 5 were excluded from the table for confidentiality reason.

¹The number of eye injuries are more than the number of patients because some patients had more than one injury type.