Textbook of Maritime Medicine

1. 8.2 Health problems. Education
(Forum/Feedback)

I would suggest to become a little more specific on what the requirements would be in what field of maritime medicine for physicians to qualify. Where would be facilities that apart from general clinical ...

2. Re:3.1 Definitions
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... procedures or even medical technology to the specific conditions of time, space, weather etc. prevalent on board of ships, oil riggs etc. The most apparent conditions are: (non-)availability of clinical ...

3. 13.13 Patient Management
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/13. Port Medicine)

... From process-analysis we know the term “critical path”. For medical practice this is called “Clinical path”. Such clinical path is the result of everyone’s collaborative effort toward determining what ...

4. 13.4 Medical Skills of the Port Maritime Physician
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/13. Port Medicine)

... becomes a key element in decision-making. The physician working in a port clinic must be skilled in good clinical examination. Very often there is not enough time to make elaborate technical tests. A good ...

5. 13 Port Medicine
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/13. Port Medicine)

... health services including clinical care but there may also be ports where seafarers need to be referred to the general medical system of the port city. The Maritime Labour Convention 2006 requires that ...

6. 17 Crisis Intervention
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/17. Crisis intervention)

... longer than one month a state occurs in which symptoms develop that are attributed to the clinical diagnosis post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD, see 17.2.3).  A large part of the population is able ...

7. 10.13 Seasickness (Motion sickness)
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/10. Medical Challenges on Board)

... being known for taking high risks and at the same time being comparatively inexperienced.   10.13.3 Clinical symptoms Motion sickness almost invariably presents as a syndrome, comprising multiple ...

8. Editorial board
(News/Frontpage)

... an optional forum for professional discussions in maritime medicine   The book shall not be a textbook of clinical medicine, but concentrate on the medical aspects that are particular for the maritime ...

9. 10.12 Diseases and Injuries of the Eyes
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/10. Medical Challenges on Board)

      Introduction   In this chapter we shortly describe the problems of acute diseases and injuries of the eyes at sea. We do not go into details of anatomy or general clinical problems ...

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

... to scabies, the onset of clinical signs and symptoms is 2–6 weeks after infestation. In previously exposed individuals, onset can be as soon as 1–4 days after infestation. Scabies is highly contagious ...

11. 10.11 Sexually transmitted diseases – STD’s
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/10. Medical Challenges on Board)

... Neisseria gonococci causes symptoms after an incubation period of 2 – 30 (mostly 4 – 6) days. A few percent of males and between 30 – 60% of females are asymptomatic or have subclinical disease.  The ...

12. 10.10 Gastrointestinal Diseases
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/10. Medical Challenges on Board)

... Appendicitis Acue appendicitis is an emergency and requires medevac. The clinical presentation consists of a relative short history (hours – 2 days), pain migration (often start in upper mid-abdomen ...

13. 10.6 Burns
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/10. Medical Challenges on Board)

...  Clinical Depth of burn injury    1st grade     Redness      Superficial damage of the epithelium      ...

14. 15.7 Re-Warming Aboard
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/15. Shipwreck and Survival at Sea)

... good clinical possibilities (11,12).    ...

15. 15.5 Drowning at Surface
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/15. Shipwreck and Survival at Sea)

... ingestion of sea-water repetitive and subsequent vomiting is frequent. Aspiration of vomit enhances drowning related lung lesions, making the clinical situation even worse (6).   As the majority of ...

16. 10.8 Conditions related to Extreme Temperatures
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/10. Medical Challenges on Board)

... S. Moran. Clinical Management of Heat-Related Illnesses. In: Paul S. Auerbach ed.Wilderness Medicine. Philadelphia., Mosby 2007 : 268-283   10.8.3     Hypothermia  Leif Aanderud  Accidental hypothermia ...

17. 10.2 Soft tissue and joint diseases
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/10. Medical Challenges on Board)

... whether our investment of time and resources in a clinical investigation of these patients really makes a difference. This perception stands in contrast to the major importance of these disorders – not ...

18. 19.4 Research methods
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/19. Research in Maritime Medicine)

... an exposure or a treatment, with the outcomes among controls without that feature. In the clinical controlled trial, one has to select controls out of those with the disorder for which a treatment is to ...

19. 19.2 Scientific literature in maritime medicine and research methodology
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/19. Research in Maritime Medicine)

...  Medical Education Online is another open access resource dealing with e.g. education in basic and clinical science, research design, and statistics (http://med-ed-online.net/index.php/meo). An introduction ...

20. 19.1 Science and research in maritime medicine
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/19. Research in Maritime Medicine)

... rather than the researcher’s individuality. While the medical community in clinical work as well as in research should always aim to benefit the patient or the person in risk, an additional challenge, ...