Print ISSN: 2395-1443
Online ISSN: 2395-1451
CODEN : IJCEKF
Indian Journal of Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology (IJCEO) is open access, a peer-reviewed medical journal, published quarterly, online, and in print, by the Innovative Education and Scientific Research Foundation (IESRF) since 2015. To fulfil our aim of rapid dissemination of knowledge, we publish articles ‘Ahead of Print’ on acceptance. In addition, the journal allows free access (Open Access) to its content, which is likely to attract more readers and citations of articles published in IJCEO. Manuscripts must be prepared in more...Original Article
Author Details :
Volume : 6, Issue : 4, Year : 2020
Article Page : 616-621
https://doi.org/10.18231/j.ijceo.2020.129
Abstract
Aims and Objectives: The aim was to compare the effectiveness between patching and non-patching in the treatment of non-infected, non-contact lens related traumatic corneal abrasions, as well as of abrasions following foreign body removal.
Materials and Methods: A prospective, controlled, randomized study on 100 patients over 1 year who presented with ocular pain, with a history of trauma or foreign body removal & had corneal abrasion on fluorescein stain. Patients were randomized into two groups: with patch group (receiving an eye patch with topical antibiotics) and no patch group (topical antibiotics with no eye patch) and patients were followed up.
Results: Patients with corneal abrasions healed significantly faster and relieved symptomatically in the no patch group.
Conclusion: We conclude that routine use of eye patching is not effective in the healing of simple corneal abrasion.
Keywords: Corneal abrasion, Corneal foreign body removal, Fingernail injury, Patching.
How to cite : Deka B , Dutta S K , Deb S, Goswani H , Ahmed T , Effectiveness of patching and non-patching in treatment of corneal abrasion: A comparative study. Indian J Clin Exp Ophthalmol 2020;6(4):616-621
This is an Open Access (OA) journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.