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Eye emergency calls often chemical or stroke
Eye-related emergency calls and prehospital management in region Zealand, Danmark: a register-based cohort study
Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine · Added 9 May 2026
Register-based cohort of 340 eye-related emergency calls found chemical exposures (31.5%), vision loss (25.9%), and trauma (18.2%) as leading causes, with 11.5% of patients initially coded for eye problems later diagnosed with stroke.
- Study type
- Registry
- Design
- Retrospective register-based cohort study linking dispatch, prehospital and national patient registries
- Participants
- 340 eye-related emergency calls, Region Zealand, Denmark
- Main finding
- Leading causes: chemical exposure 31.5%, vision loss 25.9%, ocular trauma 18.2%. 11.5% suspected stroke prehospitally; 7.4% of admitted patients had confirmed TIA/stroke. Irrigation documented in 27.1%.
- Caveat
- Single Danish region, descriptive registry design with reliance on documentation
- Bottom line
- Context only
Learning goal
Recognise stroke and TIA presentations that masquerade as eye-related emergency calls in my practice.
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- Topic: Operations & systems
- Daily scan: 9 May 2026
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