Mass-casualty incidents highlight need for integration of ocular trauma care

Potentially blinding ocular injuries from incidents such as the Boston Marathon bombing and the fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas, are common, making the integration of ophthalmologists into regional trauma teams critical, according to researchers.As part of a multicenter, cross-sectional, retrospective, comparative case series, researchers collected ocular and systemic trauma data from the medical records of individuals injured during the Boston Marathon bombing and West fertilizer plant explosion. In all, 72 eyes of 36 patients treated at one of 12 institutions were included in the study.