RESUMO
La instalación de bolsas de aire en los vehículos automotores, en conjunto con los cinturones de seguridad, ha reducido la incidencia de lesiones en cabeza y cuello posteriores a colisiones frontales o laterales. La NHTSA ha reportado en sus últimos estudios realizados que la instalación de bolsas de aire ha salvado vidas en accidentes automovilísticos. Sin embargo, las bolsas de aire son causantes de abrasiones, heridas, quemaduras y otras lesiones. A continuación se reporta un caso donde se presenta trauma facial debido a activación inusual de bolsa de aire y se realiza revisión de la literatura.
The installation of air bags in automobile vehicles, conjointly with seat belts, has reduced the incided of head injuries posterior to frontal or lateral collisions. The NHTSA, in last studies, that the installation or air bags has saved lives in automobile accidents. However, air bags cause small abrasions, light wounds, burns and other lesions. In following pages a case report presented where facial trauma occurs due to the unusual activation of the air bag and the pertinent literature is revised.
Assuntos
Humanos , Masculino , Adolescente , Consequências de Acidentes , Air Bags/efeitos adversos , Air Bags/estatística & dados numéricos , Air Bags/tendências , Traumatismos Craniocerebrais/terapia , Fraturas Mandibulares , Fraturas Mandibulares/terapia , Interpretação Estatística de DadosRESUMO
PURPOSE: To report a patient who developed corneal flap dislocation following air bag injury 48 months after LASIK. METHODS: Evaluation by slit-lamp microscopy and fluorescein angiography. RESULTS: A 29-year-old man was treated after air bag injury that occurred 48 months after LASIK. Examination revealed corneal flap dislocation, with severe folds and flap edema. Preoperative visual acuity was finger counting at 1 m. Visual acuity was 20/400 24 hours after repositioning the corneal flap. Retinal angiography revealed Berlin macular edema, which was injected with periocular steroids. Five days after injection, visual acuity remained 20/400, but improved to 20/40 1 month after injection. CONCLUSIONS: Significant trauma can dislocate a corneal flap many months after surgery.