Permanent visual work disabilities: 321 cases review.

Introduction: Visual diseases are the fifth more frequent cause of labour permanent disability, what represents 4% of the total of them. In order to assess these cases we must take into account on one hand the visual requirements of each profession, and on the other hand the visual functional impairments that the worker is suffering. Special attention must be paid to situations of legal blindness and low vision, as a cause of serious disabilities.

[Ophthalmology complaints in Spain].

Purpose: We reviewed 90 complaints for allegedly incorrect ophthalmic procedures. Most of these complaints (33%) were related to cataract and refractive surgery (18%). In third position in terms of frequency (14%) were complaints concerning oculoplastic surgery and in fourth position were complaints related to retinal detachment (13%).