Epidemiology of children and adolescent eye injuries in British Columbia

Table 1 Child and adolescent eye injuries by age groups and sex, British Columbia Trauma Registry, 2000-2008

Age group	Female			Male			Total
	n	Row %	Col %	n	Row %	Col %	n	Row %	Col %
0-4 yr	10	45.5	21.7	12	54.5	10.3	22	100.0	10.5
5-9 yr	9	36.0	19.6	16	64.0	13.8	25	100.0	15.4
10-14 yr	9	34.6	19.6	17	65.4	14.7	26	100.0	16.0
15-19 yr	18	20.2	39.1	71	79.8	61.2	89	100.0	54.9
Total	46	28.4	100.0	116	71.6	100.0	162	100.0	100.0

Table 2 Child and adolescent eye injuries by injury mechanism, British Columbia Trauma Registry, 2000-2008

Injury mechanism
	n	%
Vehicular crash	68	42.0
Blunt	23	14.2
Cut	20	12.3
Falls	15	9.3
Assault	14	8.6
Stab	9	5.6
Firearm	7	4.3
Burn/crush injury	6	3.7
Total	162	100.0

Table 3 Children and adolescent eye injuries by place of occurrence, British Columbia Trauma Registry, 2000-2008

Place of injury
	n	%
Street/highway	52	32.1
Home	42	25.9
Sports/athletics area	36	22.2
Other specified place of occurrence	22	13.6
School/other institution/public area	6	3.7
Total	1581

¹Numbers fewer than 5 were removed from the table due to confidentiality reasons.

Table 4 Glasgow Coma Scale in admission for children and adolescent patients with eye injuries, British Columbia Trauma Registry, 2000-2008

GCS score	n	%
≤ 8 - severe brain injury	6	3.7
9-12 - moderate brain injury	4	2.5
≥ 13 - mild brain injury	104	64.2
Missing	48	29.6
Total	162	100.0

GCS: Glasgow Coma Scale.

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.