• Yong Liu, Yi-Fei Huang, Jing-Jing Jiang, Ji-Feng Yu, Yu-Bo Gong, Xi-Bin Zhou, Gai-Ping Du, and Qian-Qian Xu.
• Department of Ophthalmology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China.
• Ulus Travma Acil Cer. 2012 Jul 1;18(4):321-7.

BackgroundOur aim was to review the characteristics of transferred fireworks-related ocular damage and to evaluate the prognostic value of the ocular trauma score (OTS) for these injuries.MethodsThis study included 22 transferred patients (19 male, 3 female; mean age 22.6±14.9 years) (25 eyes). The data were retrospectively reviewed, including the characteristics of the geography, types of fireworks, status of injuries, therapeutic procedures, and the best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA). All the injured eyes were classified using the OTS at the time of the initial examination.ResultsTwenty eyes (80%) were in OTS category 1, three eyes (12%) were in OTS category 2, and two eyes (8%) were in OTS category 3. All cases received surgical therapy. Six eyes (24%) were enucleated, four (16%) of which achieved an improvement in their final BCVA. There was a statistically significant improvement in final BCVA between OTS category 1 and the other two OTS categories (p=0.016).ConclusionThe aforementioned transferred fireworks-related ocular injury cases occurred mainly in young adults, men and active participants, all of which incurred serious vision loss and blindness. The OTS is quite effective for classifying the status and estimating the prognosis of transferred fireworks-related ocular injuries.

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