Assistant Professor, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Majmaah University, KSA
Critically ill patients’ eyes are exposed to a wide array of problems and complications. The most commonly evident eye problem is the eye dryness. Eye care standards are not applied completely for critically ill patients.
To evaluate the effect of closed eye care method on outcome indicators in critically ill patients who got admitted in Intensive Care Units.
Quasi experimental research design was used to conduct the current study. A convenient sample of 50 adult patients “100 eyes” were selected from the ICUs and were randomly divided into two groups; the CEC (Closed Eye Care) and the REC (Routine Eye Care) group (25 Patients “50 eyes” per group).
The closed eye care is more effective than the routine eye care where, patients receiving the closed eye care have fewer problems such as eye discharge, lesser eye complications like impaired corneal integrity, and lesser incidence of eye dryness than that in patients receiving the routine eye care.
Closed eye care, Routine eye care, critically ill patients, outcome indicators
