Indications for Admission and Its Association with Ocular Surface Disorders among Patients Admitted In Adult Intensive Care Unit of a Tertiary Care Hospital

Background: Present study was done to evaluate the Indications for admission and its association with ocular surface disorders among Patients admitted in Adult Intensive Care Unit of a Tertiary Care Hospital. Material and Methods: It was a prospective observational study carried in AICU over period of one year by Department of Ophthalmology, Dr. RPGMC Kangra at Tanda. All the patients who were admitted in AICU greater than 48 hours between ages of 18-65 years were included and evaluated for socio-demographic information like age, gender, indications for admission etc. Thorough ophthalmic examination was also done for ocular surface disorders and analysed using epi info v7 software. Results: A total of 126 patients were included in the study. Mean age of the study participants was 41.8 years. Maximum patients, 23.8% of the patients were in age group of 51 and 60 years followed by 23% between 21 and 30 years and 41 and 50 years each. 64.3% of the patients were males while 35.7% were females. The most common indication for AICU admission was post-operative monitoring (30.9%) followed by head injury (19.8%) and orthopaedic injury (11.1%). In the present study, 74 (58.7%) of the patients had ocular surface disorders. Ocular surface disorders were observed most commonly among patients who had head injury Followed by Post-operative monitoring and Respiratory Insufficiency as indication for AICU admission. Conclusion: The present study concluded that post-operative monitoring was the most common indication for AICU admission and Ocular surface disorders were observed most commonly among patients who had head injury.