Contact Lens Use Under Adverse Conditions Applications in Military Aviation (1990) / Chapter Skim
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5. Recommendations
5. Recommendations
Pages 36-40
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The ocular health of military air personnel represents an essential resource that must be protected from unnecessary harm. Practices that represent known risks to this resource such as the wearing of contact lenses in stressful environments should be avoided unless these practices are essential to discharging the aviator's military role.
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The term peucible eucten~led wear describes this policy of accommodating the needs of the mission with minimum wear time. The practice of flexible emended wear should not be allowed to degenerate into continuous extended wear without relief.
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thereafter so that contact lenses and spectacles match. Checking spectacle acuity against contact lens acuity will ensure that aviators can easily move from using one to using the other without untoward visual effects.
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Information gathered from these exams should form part of a centrally located data base that can be used to assess the performance of various lens models or lens care schemes, as well as to critically evaluate the contact lens program in terms of actual complication rates experienced in the various aviation settings.
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With the level of refractive errors common today among military aviators, this approach is clearly counterproductive. Consultation with the military ophthalmic community in the early phases of hardware design could reduce incompatibility with ophthalmic needs and increase the range of options available to cope with vision defects.
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