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Midwest retina specialists arl. hts11/21/2023 ![]() ![]() Please note: The ASRS is working with our contacts at the Ukrainian Alliance of Ophthalmologists on the logistics for shipping goggles to Ukraine details will be posted here shortly. Many thanks for your understanding, cooperation, and kind support of the Ukrainian resistance! Any extra pair of ballistic goggles is an “extra” pair of saved eyes and, probably, the life, of a Ukrainian defender. We will be grateful for any eyewear you donate. We appeal to you, our international partners and friends, to help us supply as many Ukrainian defenders as possible with protective ballistic goggles. The need is great not all Ukrainian defenders have been supplied with tactical ballistic eyewear. ![]() But very soon, Ukrainian suppliers ran out of ballistic goggles: they are simply no longer available in our country. Knowing that prevention is the best treatment, we earlier began buying protective eyewear and supplying it to our country’s defenders. But we have seen that the number of combat eye injuries is much lower among Ukrainian defenders using protective ballistic goggles. Unfortunately, restoring adequate vision has been impossible in a number of cases despite specialized treatment, including vitreoretinal surgery. Chemical and thermal eye traumas are also common. Eye perforations with multiple intraocular foreign bodies are the combat eye injuries we see most often today. We, Ukrainian ophthalmologists, from the beginning of the attempted Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, have faced an increasing number of patients with eye injuries.Ĭombat eye injuries are much more severe than the ocular injuries we see in everyday peacetime practice. If you wish to post an humanitarian opportunity simply complete the online form or contact International Affairs Committee Staff Liaison Jennifer Carstens at for more information. Questions should be directed to the contacts for each posting and not to the ASRS office.ĪN APPEAL FROM THE UKRAINIAN ALLIANCE OF OPHTHALMOLOGISTS Ukraine’s Defenders Need Ballistic Goggles The following humanitarian opportunities are available to international members.
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