Significant increase of firework induced eye injuries in Germany and The Netherlands- are we doing enough to protect minors and bystanders?
What is known: overrepresentation of affected minors below 18 years and a rate of up to 50% of injured bystanders according to our data collection over 15 years in the Netherlands and 7 years in Germany What is new: In 2022/2023, total numbers of patients with fire work induced eye injuries in the Netherlands and Germany increased significantly after 2 years of pandemic regulations with a sales ban of consumer fire work articles In 2022/23, incidence of firework induced eye injuries is 1/100 000 in Germany, 0,8/100 000 in the Netherlands Among affected minors in Germany school children up to 12 years are at higher risk than adolescents.
Authors
- M. Kathke
- P. Rieck
- Jan Wildner
- Birthe Stemplewitz
- Bettina Fuisting
- Tim U. Krohne (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2280-925X)
- A. Medra
- Ali Al‐Ahmad (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8769-599X)
- A. Mueller (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1130-6251)
- P. Kupper
- F. Luciani
- Ian Lau (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5026-3189)
- O. Kemper
- C. Dempe
- C. Mais
- Arne Viestenz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1582-1760)
- Teresa Barth (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9748-6171)
- C. Zollfrank
- Karl Ulrich Bartz‐Schmidt (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8031-7478)
- C. Ehlken
- R. Kourukmas (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5997-9215)
- G. Auffahrt
- N. Mala
- Josef M. Schmidbauer
- Lars‐Olof Hattenbach (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5275-8118)
- Daniel Kampik (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8613-5875)
- M. G. A. Abdelfatah
- P. Schubart
- N. Al-Ashi
- Lasse Wolfram (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1549-5889)
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- Klaus Rohrschneider
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- Ira Seibel
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- Karsten Hufendiek (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3996-7844)
- A. Lieder
- Nicolas Feltgen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6857-3003)
- A. M. H. Foerster
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- Filip Filev (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8484-0079)
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- Aydin Özen
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- Suzie Vardanyan
- Hans Hoerauf
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- J Rudolph
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- A. Huth
- Albéric Sneyers (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-9048-1529)
- B. Nölle
- E Friedrich
- M. Müller
- Joachim Schiemann
- Stefan Dithmar
- U. Brunner
- T. Theofilos
- Y. M. Christian
- I. Diamantis
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Institutions
- University of Freiburg (DE)
- Rotterdam Eye Hospital (NL)
- Klinikum Ernst von Bergmann (DE)
- Universitätsklinikum Brandenburg an der Havel (DE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Graefe s Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology
- Published
- 2024-12-03
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00417-024-06677-6
- Citations
- 5
- Primary Topic
- Traumatic Ocular and Foreign Body Injuries
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.69