RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Obstetric complications on deployed operations: a guide for the military surgeon JF Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps JO J R Army Med Corps FD British Medical Journal Publishing Group SP 326 OP 329 DO 10.1136/jramc-2015-000426 VO 162 IS 5 A1 Edwin R Faulconer A1 S Irani A1 N Dufty A1 D Bowley YR 2016 UL http://militaryhealth.bmj.com/content/162/5/326.abstract AB Modern military general surgeons tend to train and then practice in ‘conventional’ surgical specialties in their home nation; however, the reality of deployed surgical practice, either in a combat zone or on a humanitarian mission, is that they are likely to have to manage patients with a broad range of ages, conditions and pathologies. Obstetric complications of war injury include injury to the uterus and fetus as well as the mother and both placental abruption and uterine rupture are complications that military surgeons may have little experience of recognising and managing. On humanitarian deployments, fetomaternal complications are a common reason for surgical intervention. We report a recent patient's story to highlight the obstetric training needs of military surgeons.