Emergency War Surgery NATO Handbook: Part IV: Regional Wounds and Injuries: Chapter XXV: Laser Injury of the Eye

Introduction

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Military application of laser devices will most certainly, in the future, generate casualties with laser injuries of the eye The energy output of currently deployed rangefinders, for example, is sufficient to produce significant eye injuries at ranges up to a kilometer. High-energy output laser weapons with considerably greater potential for injury to the eye have not, to date, appeared on a battlefield.

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