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Epidemiology of Ocular Firecracker injury during diwali in eastern india

Ocular Firecracker Injury during festive season - An audit of five years in a tertiary care hospital in Eastern India

Status
Recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Observational
Source
CTRI
Registry ID
CTRI/2022/03/041313
Enrollment
376
Registered
2022-03-23
Start date
Unknown
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2022-10-17

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Conditions

Health Condition 1: S05- Injury of eye and orbit

Interventions

None listed

Sponsors

Regional Institute of Ophthalmology Kolkata
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Patients came to the OPD and Emergency services in Regional Institue of Ophthalmology, Kolkata for 1 week during DIWALI festival in consecutive 5 years from 2017 to 2021

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: 1. Patients came to the OPD and emergency with ocular injuries not during the week of DIWALI festival 2. Patients with ocular injuries not due to firecracker 3. patients with severe extra ocular injuries and life threatning injuries, requiring multispeciality management

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
To evaluate the prevalence of Ocular fire cracker injury in Eastern India during Festive week of DIWALITimepoint: 5 years—

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
To correlate the visual outcome with OTS study resultTimepoint: 5 years;To evaluate the magnitude of blindness created by fire cracker injuryTimepoint: 5 years;To evaluate the risk factors for the blindness in fire cracker injuryTimepoint: 5 years—

Countries

India

Contacts

Public ContactAshis Majumdar

Government Medical college and hospital, Purulia

docjayantadutta@rediffmail.com9433571337

Outcome results

None listed

Source: CTRI (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026