Alf Magne Horneland, is a special adviser at Haukeland University Hospital, Department of Occupational Medicine, Norwegian Centre for Maritime and Diving Medicine in Bergen and current president of the ...
Roar Hansen, Cand.polit in Social Anthropology, currently holds a position as PHD candidate at the Centre for Care Research West, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL). Research experience ...
Marit Grønning, MD, Neurologist. Director of Department of Occupational Medicine, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen. Leader of the National Center for Surveillance of the health of occupational divers. ...
... medicine (Bergen 2008-2012). Part-time work every year from 1971to 2017 as a ship’s doctor, medical consultant and lecturer on > 30 different ships for 12 cruise companies. Chair, Section for Cruise ...
... a specific focus on emergency medicine and trauma, working in both the public and private healthcare sectors. Ryan then moved over to the UK in 2003 where he continued with his emergency medicine training ...
Tim Carter was the editor of the second edition of this textbook. At the time he was a professor based in the Norwegian Centre for Maritime and Diving medicine. He has now retired but has assisted with ...
Degree in Medicine and Surgery (MD) & Anglo-Germanic Philology, Specialist Degree in Occupational Health. PhD, Doctoral thesis: Epidemiological Bases in Health Promotion and Prevention in Seafarers, AIDS. ...
Dr Spike Briggs CEng FRCA is a Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia in the UK. He originally graduated with a degree in civil engineering, worked in the offshore industry for over ten ...
Magne Bråtveit is professor in the Research Group for Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen. He has a PhD in physiology. ...
... The Medical Aspects. Faculty of Occupational Medicine (UK). Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9780198808657 [3] Carter T. Fitness to Drive. A guide for health professionals. Royal Society of Medicine Presss ...
... of the ‘general likelihood’. In other parts of clinical medicine, biomarkers are useful in attempts towards individualization of prognosis[9] [10]. Most doctors are familiar with assessment of prognosis ...
... fitness criteria and their cut-off points is that of ‘expert consensus’, i.e. the lowest possible level of evidence according to Oxford centre for Evidence-based Medicine[2] [3]. Adjustments have been ...
... management keeps DON relevant in the orthopedic and sports medicine community. The cardiovascular effects may result from the physiological changes associated with diving per se, or be caused by the ...
... Medicine) is also accepted in the Netherlands. Offshore workers should be physically and mentally healthy, as access to emergency care and treatment of illness are limited. Physical demands are high ...
... ill. Communication must be reliable, and may be via: VHF radio and mobile telephone when within range of shore. Satellite telephones (email or voice). Inmarsat Standard C. Telemedicine is increasingly ...
... was on emergency medicine while only minor surgery skills were considered necessary. The guidelines have been regularly revised since 1995 and are actively promoted by the world´s most influential cruise ...
... 2. Scope for health related interventions in seafarers [1] Carter T. Merchant Seamen’s Health 1860-1960: Medicine, Technology, Shipowners and the State in Britain. Woodbridge: Boydell Press 2014. ...
... Assigned Protection Factor ARI Acute Respiratory Infection ATC system Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System (for classification of medicines) Athens Convention / ...
... maritime operations. Maritime health is a multidisciplinary field concerned with the health of seafarers. It draws on principles of traditional shore-based medicine, such as public health, clinical ...
... ship, at least initially and in conjunction with Telemedical Assistance Services (TMAS). In these situations, the vessel will prepare for the patient and contact a chosen telemedicine provider to guide ...