The 7th Military Vision Symposium on Ocular Readiness for Military Conflicts and Civilian Casualties

摘要： 此申请是为支持第七届军事远景研讨会而申请的，这是唯一一次会议 这类会议汇集了军民眼科医生、验光师和视力研究人员。超过了 多年来，这些会议提供了一个令人兴奋和独特的论坛，以交流信息和探索 创伤性眼外伤的严重需求未得到满足。在战争和战争中，战地眼部损伤稳步增加 在美国士兵部署的中东和非洲的军事冲突中继续发生， 以及美国发生的恐怖事件和其他大规模伤亡事件。军人眼部受伤人数有所增加 近年来增加了7-21%，这是由于以前有生命危险的受伤患者的存活率增加， 女性的眼部损伤比男性多。从2000年到2010年，全世界有186,555名军人眼睛受伤 医疗设施。根据公布的数据，在这段时间里，军队眼部受伤的总费用 年是22.82亿美元，包括浅表性眼损伤、非表面性眼损伤和视力 与创伤性脑损伤(TBI)相关的损害。除了军事眼睛受伤之外，还有平民受伤， 发生在恐怖袭击和大规模伤亡事件中，如运载石油的货车爆炸或在 工作场所。针对美国和世界各地平民目标的恐怖袭击没有减少的迹象。 在美国，没有数据库分析所有这些类型的创伤和/或爆炸事件造成的眼部损伤 各州。发展有效的眼外伤和爆炸伤治疗方法至关重要。 对处于危险中的我们的军事人员和恐怖分子中的平民保持远见是重要的 和大规模伤亡事件。显然需要军事眼科医生和验光师与之互动 民间临床医生和基础研究人员利用新的进步和技术来修复和康复 爆炸造成军人眼部受伤。拟议的专题讨论会将为这种互动提供机会。

Abstract: This application is a request for funding to support of the 7th Military Vision Symposium that is the only meeting of its kind bringing together military and civilian ophthalmologists, optometrists and vision researchers. Over the years, these meetings have provided an exciting and unique forum to exchange information and explore the critical unmet needs of traumatic ocular injuries. Combat ocular injuries have increased steadily in wars and continue to occur in the military conflicts in the Middle East and Africa where American soldiers are deployed, as well as in terrorist and other mass casualty events in the United States. Military eye injuries have increased by 7-21% over recent years due to increased survival of individuals with previously life threatening injuries, with women having more eye injuries than men. From 2000-2010 there were 186,555 eye injuries worldwide in military medical facilities. Based on published data, during this period the total cost of eye injuries in the military each year has been $2.282 billion, which represents superficial eye injury, non- superficial eye injury, and vision impairment related to Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). Added to the military eye injuries are the civilian injuries that occur in terrorist attacks and mass casualty events such as explosions from oil carrying freight cars or in the work place. Terrorist attacks on civilian targets in the United States and world-wide show no sign of abating. There is no database that analyzes eye injuries from all these types of trauma and/or blast events in the United States. The development of effective treatments for eye injuries from trauma and blasts is of paramount importance to preserve vision in our military personnel who are in harm’s’ way as well as for civilians in terrorist and mass casualty events. There is a clear need for military ophthalmologists and optometrists to interact with civilian clinicians and basic researchers to leverage new advances and technologies to repair and rehabilitate military eye injuries from blasts. The proposed symposium will provide the opportunity for such interactions.