Textbook of Maritime Medicine

1. Offshore Health - Terminology
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... professionals are being inserted into the maritime industrial activity to assist possible cases of illnesses and work accidents. I have used the term “OFFSHORE HEALTH”in my speech, in order to identify ...

2. 19 Research in maritime medicine
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3. 8 The Maritime Physician
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4. 5 International Conventions and Regulations of Importance to Maritime Medicine
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5. 4.3 International Maritime Organization (IMO)[1]
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6. Re:3.1 Definitions
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... Maritime Medicine: Covering the whole field of medicine related to maritime activity - merchant and military navy, offshore industry, sea pilots, the activity before going to sea, as well as after having ...

7. 8.1 The role of the maritime physician
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What about the Medic?

8. 2.1 Definitions
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i am occupational physicial and DMO i have new job about maritime medicine i interest it very mush ...

9. 8.2 Health problems. Education
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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 ...

10. 8.1 The role of the maritime physician
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Physicians with maritime medical experience or better: education will not only be required on board of ships (or other platforms at sea). You will need such specialists at port health facilities as well ...

11. 8.1 The role of the maritime physician
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12. Re:3.1 Definitions
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... professional field. When in 1990 we founded the German Society of Maritime (!) Medicine, we chose 'Maritime' to include all subareas of medicine tied to any kind of waterways with the intent to include ...

13. Re:3.1 Definitions
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Dear Dr.Wat Thank you for your kind comments. It is not easy to define "maritime medicine". My attempt was certainly tentative and should be conceived as a suggestion. The terms "nautical" and "maritime" ...

14. 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 ...

15. 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 ...

16. 4.16. National organizations with international impact
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... version one http://www.urv.es/universitat/en_index.html 2. I suggest to justify why each institution was mentioned in the text and its relation to maritime health. In the case of URV, it should be known ...

17. 13.13 Patient Management
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... a number of essential moments and events in a normal consultation that may be decisive for the quality of care a seafarer gets. A real maritime service or port clinic is organized in a way that these elements ...

18. 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 ...

19. 13.15 Contact with other Organizations
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... 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 ...

20. 13.17 Medical Records
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... should therefore be stored in a standardized way and maritime physicians are to be encouraged to use e.g. ICD10 or ICPC to write down their assessment or diagnosis of a case.    ...