The prospects for improving medical care for minor casualties and patients in ophthalmology
Danilichev, V.F.
Voenno-Meditsinskii Zhurnal 7: 23-25
1993
ISSN/ISBN: 0026-9050 PMID: 8249340 Document Number: 417699
As for modern war the casualty rate of ophthalmological minor wounded will be approximately 1.7% of all sanitary losses. The improvement of medical care to this category of patients will be possible if some organizational principles are observed: selection of these patients into a separate group in order to promote their rapid evacuation to the hospital for minor wounded (HMW); existence of physician-ophthalmologist at the stage of secondary care for qualified triage, immediate and holding care, and pre-evacuation procedures; application of modern ophthalmological facilities in field conditions; optic correction of sight in patients at HMW.