Fireworks are responsible for more than 9,000 injuries every year, and most of those injuries happen in the early summer months, according to Anna P. Murchison, MD, MPH, director, Wills Eye Emergency Department at Jefferson.
This year has seen an uptick in the overall number of eye injuries as well as the severity of those injuries, Murchison told Healio/OSN.
“As this year has already had more reports of non-professionals using fireworks in more populated urban areas, there is the potential for more injuries over a longer than usual time frame,” (Read more...)
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