Playtime Open Globe Injuries in Children

Eye Trauma Clinical Trial

Official title:

Epidemiology, Aetiologies, and Complications of Playtime Open-globe Injuries in Children

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04497896
• Other study ID #: 17300438
• Status: Completed
• Start date: January 1, 2016
• Est. completion date: January 1, 2017

Study information

• Verified date: July 2021
• Source: Assiut University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

This study investigated the epidemiology, aetiologies, and complications of playtime open-globe injuries in children at the Assiut University Hospital, Egypt, between January to July 2016.

Description:

This prospective study was conducted at the Department of Ophthalmology, Assiut University Hospital, which is the largest tertiary referral hospital in Upper Egypt and provides 24-hour ophthalmic emergency services for six governorates. The study included all children (age ≤18 years) admitted with open-globe injuries that occurred during playtime over a 6-month study period. Demographic information (age and sex), the site and mechanism of injury, the site of ocular laceration (corneal, scleral or corneoscleral) and associated complications were recorded and analysed.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 81
• Est. completion date: January 1, 2017
• Est. primary completion date: July 31, 2016
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A to 18 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• all children (age =18 years) admitted with open-globe injuries that occurred during playtime over a 6-month study period (January-July 2016).

Exclusion Criteria:

• Open globe injuries in patients olader than 18 years.

• Closed globe injuries

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Eye Injuries
• Eye Trauma

Intervention

Other:
• Repair of open globe injury
repair of corneal, corneoscleral, or scleral wounds

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Assiut University

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Visual acuity (in Decimal using Snellen chart) after repair of open globe injury	measurement of corrected distant visual acuity after wound repair.	1 day