TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2002//
TI  - Incidence of ocular injuries in motor vehicle crash victims with concomitant air bag deployment
JO  - Ophthalmology
A1  - Anderson, Steven K.
A1  - Desai, Uday R.
A1  - Raman, Sundara V.
SP  - 2356
EP  - 2358
VL  - 109
IS  - 12
N2  - OBJECTIVE: To report the incidence of ocular and nonocular trauma in patients admitted to the Henry Ford Hospital via the emergency room since 1994 after a motor vehicle crash (MVC) with and without air bag deployment. DESIGN: A retrospective cohort study. METHODS: The Henry Ford Hospital Trauma Registry database was reviewed for patients involved in MVCs with and without air bag deployment since 1994. RESULTS: From 1994 to 1999, there were only seven air bag-related ocular injuries, representing 4.4% of all MVC-related ocular injuries. From 1997 to 1999, MVC-related ocular injuries with and without air bags represented 5.0% and 12.7%, respectively, of all MVC-related injuries. For that same period, the death rate and average Injury Severity Score for MVCs with air bag deployment were 3.4% and 10.75, compared with 8% and 14.5, respectively, for MVCs without air bag deployment. CONCLUSIONS: MVC-related ocular injuries associated with air bag deployment are rare, and the incidence of ocular injuries associated with MVCs was lower when air bags were deployed.
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SN  - 0161-6420
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -