Dr. Mehul Ashvin Kumar Shah, S05624, Dr. Shreya Shah, Dr. Anand Tibdewal, Dr. Saurabh N Shah
Objective: To introduce a pediatric ocular trauma score (POTS) to predict ocular trauma in children with traumatic cataracts.
Design: Retrospective cohort study
Participants: All children having traumatic cataracts without serious body injury
Materials and Methods: This is a retrospective cohort study conducted in a tertiary eye care center at the nexus of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, and Rajasthan states in central Western India. Children with traumatic cataracts (n=668) were enrolled. The eyes were examined to review co-morbidities caused by trauma. Surgery was performed for traumatic cataracts, lenses were implanted and patients were treated for amblyopia, as applicable. The patients were re examined 6 weeks postoperatively. Ocular trauma score (OTS) was calculated and the POTS was derived by adjusting the OTS for age. Visual acuities were predicted using the OTS and the POTS separately and compared with the actual outcomes using statistical tests. The relationship of final visual acuity with demographic and clinical variables was anal