| dc.description.abstract | Background. Ocular trauma poses a significant global health problem, being,
in some series, the main cause of monocular blindness, ocular trauma, its
resulting visual and economic loss, represent a considerable problem for both
developed and developing countries; The incidence of ocular trauma has been
estimated at 3 per 100,000 people.
Objetive. Analyze the literature on epidemiology, associated factors and
treatments of ocular trauma in Latin America.
Method. A bibliographic review of original scientific articles, systematic reviews
and gray literature corresponding to the last five years in Spanish and English;
and, structured in qualified search engines such as: documents and databases
of the virtual libraries Dynamed, Cochrane Plus, Medline, Dynamed, Lilacs,
Cinalh, Elsevier and ProQuest.
Results: 43 articles were included based on the specific objectives.
Conclusions: Ocular trauma is more common in men, in productive age,
especially closed trauma; the causes in adults are traffic accidents, work
injuries, and sports and games in children; the treatments used are individual
that include drugs and surgical resolution. | |
