Textbook of Maritime Medicine

1. Offshore Health - Terminology
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... area, also had an important social-economics role nationally and internationally. This sector was then responsible for hiring a great demand for skilled labor to work at sea. Therefore, many health ...

2. 5 International Conventions and Regulations of Importance to Maritime Medicine
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3. 4.3 International Maritime Organization (IMO)[1]
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4. 3.3 Regulation and international agreements
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5. Re:3.1 Definitions
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... inland waterways,lakes etc. as long as these would require special rules and procedures to render medical assistance. I think in doing so we are in line with the International Maritime (!) Health Association ...

6. Re:4.16. National organizations with international impact
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Thank you, Luisa. I will consider changes when I have received the feedback from the reviewers. I expect comments that probably may lead to a revised text here and there, and take everything at the same ...

7. 4.16. National organizations with international impact
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I would suggest to insert here a space for National Scientific Associations history and their International Impact. You can insert a link to their websites E.g. 1. for SEMM (Spanish Society of Maritime ...

8. 4.16. National organizations with international impact
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... the following facts: a) They started to participate into the maritime medicine field from 2003 when the Spanish Society of Maritime Medicine (SEMM) invited them to support the 7th International Symposium ...

9. 4.16. National organizations with international impact
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10. 7 Introduction
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The need of discussing this field is obvious. Many nations have not developed their own standards and regulations, relying only on the international guidelines of 1997 from WHO, ILO and IMO, which are ...

11. 13.14 Cooperation with Port Health Authorities
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... health services such as: 13.14.1. Notification of disease by shipmasters (Maritime Declaration of Health), granting of “free practice” The International Health Regulations 2005 apply to ships and ...

12. 13.15 Contact with other Organizations
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... will be able to deliver needed drugs with short notice to ships. 13.15.8. Port Clinics in other ports The port maritime physician is working in an international sector. He should therefore look further ...

13. 13.9 Preventive Services
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... counselling and anonymous testing of sexually transmitted diseases in cooperation with public health services. Information tailored to the needs of seafarers is available from the International Seafarers ...

14. 13.2 Social Aspects
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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 ...

15. 17 Crisis Intervention
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... disturbing events the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, DSM (1) and the International Classification of Diseases, ICD-10 (2) use the terms traumatic event. Traumatic events have the ...

16. 10.13 Seasickness (Motion sickness)
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... Italy via international pharmacy) Administer 1 patch behind an ear, onset of clinical efficacy after approx. 1-3 hours (full efficacy after 6 hours), drug release for 72 hours. Contraindications: ...

17. 10.11 Sexually transmitted diseases – STD’s
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... of control of STD in seafarers   For years, there has been an international agreement in terms of STD control measures in ports. In Denmark since 1802, free treatment was provided to seafarers with ...

18. 11.5 Ship noise and its effects on seafarers’ health
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... hearing There are few published international studies on the effects of ship noise on seafarers’ hearing (9). We should remember that if a person is exposed to noise greater than 80 dB(A) for ...

19. 10.10 Gastrointestinal Diseases
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... areas, but although cruise ships offer the comfortable familiarity of home, they can not entirely remove the risks of international travel [56]. In general, GI conditions seen on ships mirror those on ...

20. 10.6 Burns
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... the patient  has to be given immediately. If the intravenous therapy is not possible, sufficient oral medication with analgesics should be performed.  According to the „International Medical ...