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Eye injuries occurred in 10% of UK military major trauma cases in Iraq and Afghanistan between 2004 and 2008, with 33% of these eye injuries open globe in nature(1). This article will consider the diagnosis, classification and management of open globe injuries in the role 1/ pre-hospital environment.

This article describes the involvement of trainees from anaesthetics, emergency medicine and pre-hospital emergency medicine during an exercise with the Command Forward Surgical Group. The exercise allowed for hands-on experience that cannot be gained in a civilian environment and is directly applicable to future deployments as military consultants. Exercising in the field with experienced consultants and the deployable medical modules encouraged the sharing of important speciality specific and multidisciplinary corporate knowledge.