The Lancet : "Ocular injuries caused by «less-lethal» weapons in France | Ce monde à inventer ! | Scoop.it

Aurore Chauvin, Jean-Louis Bourges, Jean-François Korobelnik, Michel Paques, Pierre Lebranchu, Frederic Villeroy 02/11/19 : "Since the introduction of so-called less-lethal weapons in France in the late 1990s, there has been no legal requirement to collect data on injuries induced by kinetic impact projectiles, and no epidemiological surveys have been planned. To estimate the number of patients with ocular injuries caused by the use of these defensive tools, a retrospective survey was sent to all ophthalmology department chairs in French university hospitals, which are where the most severe cases are managed...