Patients in the intensive care unit (ICU), especially ventilated patients, are
at considerable risk of developing ocular surface disease because the protective eye
mechanisms are damage, as decrease eyelid closure ,unable blinking, decreased produc
ing
tears, increased expose the eye to pathogen bacteria . These factors often result in incomplete
lid closure and expose and decay the eye, and this called the exposure keratopathy, which
appear that high rate with ventilated patients.
The eye care is a part of the providing care to every patient in critical care units.
Whereas the Unconscious and Sedation and paralysis patients are the most serious group and
the most need to the eye care for maintain the eye in a state of normal.objective:To determine
the effect kind of eye care policy on incidence rate of exposure keratopathyamong
mechanically ventilated patients.
