Noncontact tonometer is a convenient instrument for checking of intraocular pressure without corneal touch. We compared the IOP of 45 eyes in 24 patients with and without soft contact lenses. Two measurements were taken on each eye while the patients were wearing soft conbtact lenses by noncontact tonometry, and rechecked immediatly after the lenses were removed. There was no significant differance between two measurements(t-test, P>0.05).
Contact Lenses, Hydrophilic* ; Humans ; Intraocular Pressure* ; Manometry*

We did clinical analysis of 30 patients with unilateral retinal vein occlusion who were diagnosed by direct ophthalmoscope and Fluorescein angiography from Jan, 1985 to Jan, 1990. The results were as follows: 1. Retinal vein occlusion typically affected persons in 6th decades, averaging 55 years of age, and patients number over 6th decades were 17(579%). 2. The visual acuities of initial visit were below 0.1 in 57 96 of CRVO(Central Retinal Vein Occlusion) and 26% of BRVO(Branch Retinal Vein Occlusion). 3. The most common associated disease was hypertension. 4. The patients number of CRVO were 7 and BRVO were 23, and the incidence of BRVO was 3.2 times higher than CRVO. 5. 19 cases(82.6%) of BRVO affected the superior temporal branch.
Fluorescein Angiography ; Humans ; Hypertension ; Incidence ; Ophthalmoscopes ; Retinal Vein Occlusion* ; Retinal Vein* ; Retinaldehyde* ; Visual Acuity

We did clinical analysis of 30 patients with unilateral retinal vein occlusion who were diagnosed by direct ophthalmoscope and Fluorescein angiography from Jan, 1985 to Jan, 1990. The results were as follows: 1. Retinal vein occlusion typically affected persons in 6th decades, averaging 55 years of age, and patients number over 6th decades were 17(579%). 2. The visual acuities of initial visit were below 0.1 in 57 96 of CRVO(Central Retinal Vein Occlusion) and 26% of BRVO(Branch Retinal Vein Occlusion). 3. The most common associated disease was hypertension. 4. The patients number of CRVO were 7 and BRVO were 23, and the incidence of BRVO was 3.2 times higher than CRVO. 5. 19 cases(82.6%) of BRVO affected the superior temporal branch.
Fluorescein Angiography ; Humans ; Hypertension ; Incidence ; Ophthalmoscopes ; Retinal Vein Occlusion* ; Retinal Vein* ; Retinaldehyde* ; Visual Acuity

BACKGROUND: Obstetrics departments are unique and medical accidents in obstetric anesthesia may show differences from non-obstetric anesthesia accidents.So we compared both groups in several aspects for the understanding their characters and decreasing their incidence. METHODS: Obstetric anesthesia accidents (n = 30) and non-obstetric anesthesia accidents (n = 106) were compared in 6 categories (patient age, anesthesia method, damaging event, anesthetic care, severity of injury, payment). RESULTS: The most common complications in obstetric anesthesia accidents were maternal death (40%), maternal brain damage (13%), and maternal nerve injury (13%).In contrast, the most common complications in non-obstetric anesthesia accidents were patient death (62%), and patient brain damage (27%). The severity of injury score of obstetric anesthesia adverse outcomes was analogous to that of non-obstetric anesthesia adverse outcomes, but the payment for obstetric accidents was significantly greater than that for non-obstetric accidents. CONCLUSIONS: Obstetric anesthesia accidents revealed distinct medical risk profiles, such as patient age, damaging event, severity of injury, and payment.Special care should be used when anesthetizing younger women and caring for a newborn in obstetric anesthesia.More studies and analyses are necessary to prevent obstetric anesthesia accidents.
Anesthesia ; Anesthesia, Obstetrical ; Brain ; Female ; Humans ; Infant, Newborn ; Maternal Death ; Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, Hospital