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A serious eye injury is a major psychological trauma to the patient and family. The most pressing issue for them is to learn about the long-term visual consequence as soon as possible (“Will I go blind?”). Having prognostic information is equally important for the ophthalmologist while he is making triaging decisions (see Chap. 1.8) and as he is counseling the patient (see Chap. 1.4).
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Kuhn, F., Morris, R., Mester, V., Witherspoon, C., Mann, L. (2008). Predicting the Severity of an Eye Injury: the Ocular Trauma Score (OTS). In: Ocular Traumatology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-33825-3_3
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