Marshall et al Eye hazards of laser 'pointers' in perspective.pdf (238.58 kB)
Eye hazards of laser 'pointers' in perspective
journal contribution
posted on 2016-12-16, 09:04 authored by J. Marshall, John B. O'Hagan, John TyrerJohn TyrerEight years ago media coverage of incidents involving laser pointers in which individuals claimed to have suffered eye damage resulted in a perspective being published in this journal.1 The final sentence concluded ‘laser pointers, pens or key rings if used appropriately are not an eye hazard, and even if used inappropriately will not cause permanent eye damage’. This statement has been supported by the finding that until recently no irreversible eye injuries had been reported for a period of almost 15 years other than those caused by deliberate and prolonged viewing of laser beams.2 During this time period pointers have been freely available with an estimated 500 000 to c1.2 million laser pointers in circulation.
History
School
- Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Published in
British Journal of OphthalmologyVolume
100Issue
5Pages
583 - 584Citation
MARSHALL, J., O'HAGAN, J.B. and TYRER, J.R., 2016. Eye hazards of laser 'pointers' in perspective. British Journal of Ophthalmology, 100 (5), pp. 583 - 584.Publisher
© British Medical Journal Publishing GroupVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Acceptance date
2016-04-15Publication date
2016-04-19Notes
This article was published in the British Journal of Ophthalmology [© BMJ Publishing Group] and the definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bjophthalmol-2016-308798ISSN
0007-1161eISSN
1468-2079Publisher version
Language
- en