Open Globe Injury Due to Blunt Eye Trauma, a forensic case report
Pagatiku, Abigael S.; Yudianto, Ahmad
Department of Forensic Medicine and Medico Legal of Medical Faculty Airlangga University – Dr. Soetomo Surabaya General Hospital
Abstract
Eye trauma is a major cause; about 30-40% of monocular blindness worldwide. Open globe injury is a severe form of eye trauma. The incidence rate of the open globe injury was estimated to be 3,5 per 100.000 persons per year. Open globe injury is injury to the cornea or sclera, usually result of penetrating eye trauma. We present a case report about A 18 years old man present to the Emergency Department for evaluation of right eye pain, bleeding and could not see after being punching on the face by some strangers on the street, tree hours prior to arrival. Finding in physical examinations; bruises on the right eye with painful bloody blind eye, sclera laceration and choroid prolapse. CT Scan : rupture injury bulbi oculi dextra with proseptal soft tissue haematoma. A case of determining the qualifications of injuries in Visum et Repertum which the depends on ophthalmologist examination. The injury causes blindness in one eye so that it is categorized as “serious physical injury” which is regulated in article 90, article 351 and article 354 of the Penal Code of Indonesia.
Keywords: Keyword: blunt violence, eye trauma, penal code of Indonesia
Topic: Law, Police and Forensic