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This is a brief overview of the primary management of ocular wounds for general and comprehensive ophthalmologists. It started as a learning resource for trainees in my own hospital. The style of the book reflects the strong visual learning preferences pos- sessed by most ophthalmologists. The iPad version is designed to be dipped into and skimmed through rather than read end to end. The dots at the bottom of the screen in chapter view allow navigation between chapters. The vid- eos are of sufficient quality to be played full screen. This can be done with a spreading touch. Many of the illustrations are also in- teractive. To navigate you can tap to maximize and use a pinching touch screen gesture to minimize. For a more extensive review of microsurgical techniques in ophthal- mology the reader is referred to Georg Eisner’s ‘Eye Surgery: An Introduction to Operative Technique’ or Marian Macsai’s ‘Ophthal- mic Microsurgical Suturing Techniques’. For a comprehensive re- view of all aspects of ocular trauma the reader is referred in particu- lar to Ferenc Kuhn’s ‘Ocular Traumatology’. To anyone reading this a a pdf: an interactive book with many more interactive features is available from the Apple iBookstore. This book is very didactic in tone. This is because the target audi- ence is ophthalmology trainees. Some controversial aspects of pene- trating ocular trauma have been glossed over and any experienced ophthalmologist is likely to find at least one statement they dis- agree with. I would like to thank my colleagues at Moorfields Eye Hospital for some of the videos and illustrations in this book particularly Mr Bill Aylward and Mr Julian Stevens. A web site is currently in development which will host educational material which may be of interest if you enjoy this book as well as details of further All versions of this book are completely free. If you find it useful please consider a donation to a charity such as Moorfields Eye Charity, Fight For Sight or the Halo Trust which work in various ways to reduce the burden of avoidable blindness due to trauma.

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