Ruptured Eyeballs

“You’ll poke your eye out!”

One of the most dreaded things that ophthalmologists see are injuries that create full thickness holes in the wall of the eyeball. We usually call these “open globe” injuries.

Isaac Bleicher and colleagues published a study in the April 2023 issue of the journal Ophthalmology that re-affirmed and deepened knowledge about these types of injuries. The bottom line message is that open globe injuries tend to be much easier to treat and have better outcomes if they are toward the front of the eye rather than the back.

Of course, the best thing to do is to follow the old maternal adage above in situations that pose any risk of eye injury.