Textbook of Maritime Medicine

1. Offshore Health - Terminology
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Currently in Brazil, the Oil and Gas Business have shown a remarkable performance growth and stability, especially at off-shore activity. The great discoveries of oil and natural gas, the so-called pre-salt ...

2. 17 Crisis Intervention
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/17. Crisis intervention)

... of acute symptoms of traumatic stress. 3.         Mitigation of dysfunction. 4.         Supporting recovery from the trauma, so that individuals may regain the level of performance they had before ...

3. 10.13 Seasickness (Motion sickness)
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/10. Medical Challenges on Board)

... seasickness is treacherous when seriously impacting on the mental and physical performance of professionals or when progressing into a crisis after sustained vomiting and fluid loss. This may imply social, ...

4. 11.5 Ship noise and its effects on seafarers’ health
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/11. Maritime occupational Medicine)

... in attention problems. Noise also increases the risk of human error (20). Particularly in fishing, this can be a non-negligible cause of accidents. Intellectual performance seems to be reduced if noise ...

5. 1 Preface
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/1. Preface)

... wellbeing and performance of those whose work and life takes them to sea. Any ship is a community, usually a small and self-sufficient one, where those aboard have a range of duties all of which are ...

6. 15.8 Distress and Abandoning Ship
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/15. Shipwreck and Survival at Sea)

... related. They may lead to performance, health, discipline, moral and survival impacts. However, modern communications and location devices make it rather unlikely that survivors will spend the time needed ...

7. 15.2 Lifejackets and Flotation Devices
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/15. Shipwreck and Survival at Sea)

... performance in a real sea-survival scenario.   For any life-jacket or flotation device it is most important that it brings the person back to surface immediately in order to prevent from drowning. ...

8. 15.1 Introduction
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/15. Shipwreck and Survival at Sea)

... garments are crucial. However, they must fit together and show high performance. Getting wet inside an immersion suit reduces chances for survival significantly. Sitting wet inside a life-raft without ...

9. 19.9 References
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/19. Research in Maritime Medicine)

... F. and S. Grõn, Making sense of fishermen's risk perception. Policies and Practice in Health and Safety, 2010. 15. Gould, K.S., et al., Effects of navigation method on workload and performance in simulated ...

10. 19.4 Research methods
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/19. Research in Maritime Medicine)

... has provided benefit to the studied maritime population. On example of this experimental design is a comparison between the influence on mental workload and performance of various navigation methods in ...

11. 4.13 PARIS MOU[1]
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/4.Organisations of importance to Maritime Medicine)

... Performance Table, all based on the important principles of Paris MOU: Integrity, Professionalism and Transparency.   [1] http://www.parismou.org/  ...

12. 10.9 Deaths on Board
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/10. Medical Challenges on Board)

...        Fig. 10.9.6: Pinpoint congestive hemorrhages (“petechiae”) in typical localization, here the ocular conjunctivae Practical performance A post mortem examination is basically performed ...

13. 16.2 The Problem derived from the Lack of Law Standardization regarding the Concept of Piracy
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/16. Piracy at Sea)

... observation on all the maritime lines in the world, reporting the pirates´ attacks to the local authorities responsible for the performance of laws and warning the sailing ships in dangerous waters about ...

14. 14.2 Flag State Control
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/14. Ship Control)

... Tome and Príncipe St Vincent Sri Lanka Tonga Vanuatu Source: http://assets.panda.org/downloads/flag_state_performance.pdf It is obvious that FOC’s are a curse for maritime safety and security ...

15. 5.12 Maritime Search and Rescue
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/5. International Conventions and Regulations of Importance to Maritime Medicine)

...  - intended to assist persoonel who plan and coordinate SAR operations and exercises VOL III: Mobile facilities - intended to be carried aboard rescue units, aircrafts and vessels to help with performance ...

16. 5.5 Ship Safety
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/5. International Conventions and Regulations of Importance to Maritime Medicine)

... regulation, with every individual - from the top to the bottom - feeling responsible for actions taken to improve safety and performance. A possible conflict of interests, though, or a paradoxical result ...

17. 7.6 Other Conditions with complex Fitness Decisions
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/7. Health Requirements for Working at Sea and the Fitness Examination)

... and injuries, unsafe medical care provided to seafarers in ports of high endemic areas, performance of medical procedures on board, unsafe blood transfusions, tattooing, piercing and unprotected sex. HIV ...

18. 7.5 Common Conditions with complex Fitness Decisions
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/7. Health Requirements for Working at Sea and the Fitness Examination)

... Where their performance is borderline, frequent surveillance may be indicated. In such cases an increased BMI serves as an indicator of the need for further capability testing and not as the reason for ...

19. 7.4 Frameworks for Seafarer Medical Examinations
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/7. Health Requirements for Working at Sea and the Fitness Examination)

... performance, publishes standards applicable to the commoner medical conditions and makes arrangements for the provision of certificates in an approved form plus other guidance and procedural documentation, ...

20. 7.2 Rationale and Criteria for Selection in Relation to Duties, Voyages and Special Vessel Types
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/7. Health Requirements for Working at Sea and the Fitness Examination)

... beyond the vessel. Assessment of cognitive function is largely outside the scope of the medical examination process and usually depends on the person’s observed performance at their job. However in a few ...