Textbook of Maritime Medicine

1. Re:9.6.2 Services around the world
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... it is really worth while. We may assume that all shipping companies individually will have given instructions to their crew as to which RMAS to use, the choice usually being evidently the one of the vessel's ...

2. Re:9.6.2 Services around the world
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... it is really worth while. We may assume that all shipping companies individually will have given instructions to their crew as to which RMAS to use, the choice usually being evidently the one of the vessel's ...

3. 13.4 Medical Skills of the Port Maritime Physician
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/13. Port Medicine)

... to take the specific situation of the seafarer into account. The success of the treatment depends on the conditions on board and the implications such treatment has on the individual seafarer and on the ...

4. 13.10 Hospitalisation and Repatriation
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/13. Port Medicine)

... port physician will take an intermediate position between the hospital care and all agencies and individuals that take an interest in the health of the seafarer. The maritime physician gives help to get ...

5. 13.11 A Maritime Medical Unit
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/13. Port Medicine)

  Although general medicine is the basis, it is of the utmost importance to have access to other specialties. The selection of the service, department or individual specialist to refer to should be done ...

6. 13 Port Medicine
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/13. Port Medicine)

... medicine are the most important. Medical practice in a port to serve the individual seafarer as well as the companies involved in shipping, calls for a particular organization. This text gives suggestions ...

7. 17 Crisis Intervention
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/17. Crisis intervention)

        17.1 Introduction For the purpose of this chapter crisis intervention is defined as encompassing all measures that may be offered as psychological help to individuals who are exposed ...

8. 10.13 Seasickness (Motion sickness)
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/10. Medical Challenges on Board)

... related implications, seasickness may in some cases also have serious medical relevance, for instance if psychosis develops and the affected individual tries to jump over board, or if a diabetic patient ...

9. Editorial board
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... a source for updating within maritime medicine -          a textbook for students of maritime medicine -          a source of information for other interested parties and individuals. -          ...

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

... to external exposures in all individuals. Atopic subjects not only have an increased risk of developing airways allergy but they are also particularly prone to irritant contact dermatitis. In turn, they ...

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

... that rapidly develop into painful 3 – 50 mm large ulcers with an easily bleeding base. One third of the infected individuals will develop almost diagnostic suppurative inguinal adenopathy that may rupture ...

12. 11.5 Ship noise and its effects on seafarers’ health
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/11. Maritime occupational Medicine)

... an individual carries out on board.   Skipper First mate Engineer Cook Deckhands Trawler 1 72.9 dB(A) 79.5 dB(A) 92 dB(A) ...

13. 10.10 Gastrointestinal Diseases
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/10. Medical Challenges on Board)

... was associated with frequent casual sexual contacts in foreign countries [24]. The prevalence of antibodies against hepatitis A (HAV) was 36% in seamen born in 1945 and earlier and 5% in younger individuals, ...

14. 15.9 Displaced People and Refugees at Sea
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/15. Shipwreck and Survival at Sea)

... after the basic in-processing procedures:   Take names, create individual identity and/or distribute registration numbers. Separate all individuals at a dedicated place on deck, alternatively, ...

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

... is associated with many other hazards besides cold and drowning. Acute dangers to the individuals in the water include entanglement or traumatic contact with structures from the sinking ship, suction, ...

16. 15.4 Sea-Survival: General Physiological Remarks
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/15. Shipwreck and Survival at Sea)

... individual and intra-individual factors is affecting the rate of developing hypothermia:   -        Temperature differential. -        ...

17. 15.2 Lifejackets and Flotation Devices
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/15. Shipwreck and Survival at Sea)

  Lifejackets are usually used by professional seafarers whereas flotation devices have their domain in recreational use. Both groups of individual rescue devices share many of the same features. The ...

18. 10.8 Conditions related to Extreme Temperatures
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/10. Medical Challenges on Board)

...  If the ship sails from a warm to a hot climate, the crew will have good time for acclimatisation. The body needs approximately about five days to adapt to a different climate, but some individuals may ...

19. 10.2 Soft tissue and joint diseases
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/10. Medical Challenges on Board)

... This challenge accounts for the individual seafarer as well as for his supervisor and also for the advising physician. For many such situations it should be recognized that pain aggravation does not necessarily ...

20. 19.4 Research methods
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/19. Research in Maritime Medicine)

... in that they aim to provide data on the entire population under study, whereas case-control studies typically include only individuals with a specific characteristic, with a sample, often a tiny minority, ...