OBJECTIVE: Establish an epidemiological analysis of patients assisted in an urgency service of a university eye hospital (Hospital São Geraldo). METHODS: This is a prospective and descriptive study, conducted from september 2005 to january 2006. A questionnaire was used for the purpose of gathering daily information about all the patients assisted in the service. Information was collected on age, sex, occupation, ethnicity, origin of the patient, primary diagnosis (according to International Classification of Disease ICD 10 ) and the approaches […]

Objective: The objective was to ascertain the main cause of the urgency and emergency in all ophthalmological diagnosis. Methods: Between february and july of 2007, eight hundred and one patients were examined prospectively at Hospital Dia da Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Limeira – SP . Patients were correlated with sex, age and origin. Results: Most of these patients were men (66%) between nineteen and forty years old (74%) and female from zero to eighteen years old (52%). The most […]

The authors present a case of intralenticular metallic foreign body, in a metallurgist patient, with lateness diagnosis. They describe the importance of clinical exame, the surgical technical that was used to remove the foreign body of the crystalline and necessity to divulge and promote preventive ways at the occupational and domestical ambients.