Final report - Risk factors for eye disease and injury
2.5 Eye injury
- Abbreviations and acronyms
- Summary
1 Introduction
2 Background- 3. Methods
- 4 Tabulated results
- 5 Description of results
- 6 Areas requiring further research
- Appendix 1 Review term
- Appendix 2 Search strategy
- Appendix 3 Summary of searches and results
- Appendix 4 Summary results tables
- Appendix 5 Quality assessments for review articles
- Appendix 6 References excluded
- Appendix 7 Included references
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- chemical burns, including alkali, acid or irritants — chemicals entering the eye can cause damage to the cornea, but occasionally can penetrate the internal eye structures of the eye, including the lens
- corneal abrasions — a scrape or scratch on the cornea
- hyphema — bleeding between the cornea and iris
- open globe injury — a full-thickness wound of the outer membrane of the eye involving the sclera or cornea
- closed globe injury — an injury where there is no full-thickness wound of the eye
- foreign objects entering the eye — penetrating injuries are caused by an object physically piercing the eye whereas ruptures occur from blunt force or nonpenetrating impact which, through distortion of the globe, results in a full-thickness laceration.
- Eye injury can occur in a number of circumstances; for example, in the workplace (eg welding), around the home, or while playing sport (eg football, racquet ball) or other recreational activities (eg paintball). Examples of common causes of eye injury include:
Media releases
- Delivering More Aged Care Places For Eastern Melbourne
- $25 Million for accommodation for aged and disadvantaged
- Christmas message – remember to check in on your elderly relatives and neighbours
- 6,500 more aged care places for older Australians
- Boost for Home and Community Care in Western Australia
Program/Initiatives
- Better HealthCare Connections: Aged Care Multidisciplinary Care Coordination and Advisory Service Program
- Better Health Care Connections: Models for Short Term, More Intensive Health Care for Aged Care Recipients Program
- Encouraging Better Practice in Aged Care (EBPAC)
- Getting assistance from an SDAP Panel Member
- Service Development Assistance Panel Program Glossary
Publications
- 2012 National Aged Care Workforce Census and Survey – The Aged Care Workforce, 2012 – Final Report
- Australian Government Directory of Services for Older People 2012/13
- Interim Evaluation of the Northern Territory Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Aged Care Workforce Development Projects
- Consumer Directed Care Evaluation
- Australian Government response to Senate Standing Committee on Finance and Public Administration Report: Residential and Community Aged Care in Australia
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