Textbook of Maritime Medicine

1. Re: Offshore Health - Terminology
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Thanks for your cooperation, because I'm being a pioneer in Brazil in the use of this term to define this particular sector. their considerations will be of great value to me and other health professionals. Kindest ...

2. Medevac outside territorial waters
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I was involved in a Radio-medical case this week in which a man needed to be evacuated because of a severe blunt trauma to the eye which had resulted in hyphema (blood in the anterior chamber) and sudden ...

3. Re:3.1 Definitions
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Dear Professor, It's been great to hear the professor clarify the phrase "Maritime Medicine". I don't know if it is because of the language barrier or its complicated meaning but we, in Navy, can not ...

4. 13.13 Patient Management
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/13. Port Medicine)

... very hindered by language problems it may happen that the response to a test is different because of cultural behaviour. It may also be delicate for some cultures to have a nurse around while undressing ...

5. 13.14 Cooperation with Port Health Authorities
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/13. Port Medicine)

... health risks. If the port medical doctor suspects a disease that may be caused by unsanitary conditions on board he may contact the port health authority for follow up. This may also include conditions ...

6. 13.15 Contact with other Organizations
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/13. Port Medicine)

... often seafarers are reluctant to trust the port maritime physician because they think he might have links to the captain, the agency or the company and therefore a seafarer sometimes does not report personal ...

7. 13.18 Medical Reports
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/13. Port Medicine)

... Medical details and results of tests have to be handed over to the patient because he may have to use them in another consultation. Copies of the report and the result are to be kept in the medical file ...

8. 13.4 Medical Skills of the Port Maritime Physician
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/13. Port Medicine)

... maritime physician. Not only to have an idea about safety and ability to continue work on board, but also to identify aspects of work that may cause injury or disease to a seafarer. Hazard definition and ...

9. 13.2 Social Aspects
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/13. Port Medicine)

To contact or visit a doctor during a voyage, a seafarer will inform the responsible officer or the captain because by contract and on the basis of international conventions the company will most often ...

10. 17 Crisis Intervention
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/17. Crisis intervention)

... potential to cause a number of reactions described by the terms traumatic stress (International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies), (psychological) trauma (2) or psychological distress (3). In their ...

11. 10.13 Seasickness (Motion sickness)
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/10. Medical Challenges on Board)

... is caused by exposure to complex, passive, and most often three-dimensional movements of the body in different vessels or environments such as cars, busses, trains, ships, airplanes, funfair rides or space ...

12. 10.12 Diseases and Injuries of the Eyes
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/10. Medical Challenges on Board)

... of the eyes, but offer simple methods for diagnosis and acute assistance.   Because treatment of eye conditions is difficult for the non-ophthalmologist, there is a fine line between local assistance ...

13. 10.3 Disorders of the Skin
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/10. Medical Challenges on Board)

... will almost inevitably lead to an irritative reaction that may be misinterpreted as allergic. Furthermore, a demonstrated allergy does not necessarily represent the cause of the eczema. A subject allergic ...

14. 10.11 Sexually transmitted diseases – STD’s
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/10. Medical Challenges on Board)

... foreign ports, and working in a risk-taking occupation may extend a culture of risk denial to displays of risk-taking in the social and sexual arena. Marginalization and low status may cause exaggerated ...

15. 11.5 Ship noise and its effects on seafarers’ health
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/11. Maritime occupational Medicine)

... equal levels of power production. However, steam valves can cause loud noise, particularly at high frequency, when they are open and/or unsophisticated in shape. In the future there will be electric ...

16. 10.10 Gastrointestinal Diseases
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/10. Medical Challenges on Board)

... British and Danish seafarers, and for many years diseases of the digestive system have been shown to be a major cause of morbidity and death [1]. Most studies on mortality and morbidity are based on statistics ...

17. 10.6 Burns
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/10. Medical Challenges on Board)

... per 100.000 inhabitants a year. The causes for burns are multiple: accidents at home, in leisure time, in the transport sector, working environment and attempted suicides – to name a few.   10.6.2   ...

18. 1 Preface
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/1. Preface)

... us to start working with the present product. It was important to us that the material should be available to everybody, anywhere, at any time, and free of charge. Because a printed version would not be ...

19. 15.9 Displaced People and Refugees at Sea
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/15. Shipwreck and Survival at Sea)

...  -        New-born and minors care.   The unfortunate end result of many of the above factors is increased mortality. The most common causes of mortality in displaced ...

20. 15.8 Distress and Abandoning Ship
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/15. Shipwreck and Survival at Sea)

... with inherent buoyancy in the ship doctor’s cabin together with his lifejacket. It should be easy to carry and capable of securing to the lifejacket or person, because for personal safety both hands are ...