Textbook of Maritime Medicine

1. 13.14 Cooperation with Port Health Authorities
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/13. Port Medicine)

...  Some port health authorities do offer free and confidential services for the prevention of disease. The port medical doctor needs to work closely with these services. 13.14.6. Disaster and contingency ...

2. 13.4 Medical Skills of the Port Maritime Physician
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/13. Port Medicine)

... and community-oriented comprehensive and integral care that is responsive as well as anticipatory and includes treatment, prevention, health education and promotion and help and assistance where necessary. ...

3. 13 Port Medicine
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/13. Port Medicine)

... prevention or rehabilitation. Experts in maritime health do agree that despite there is no regulating body which oversees the quality and appropriateness of port medicine globally, doctors who perform ...

4. 17 Crisis Intervention
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/17. Crisis intervention)

... using these methods is confidential, voluntary and educative.  The general goal of CISM is the prevention of acute, disabling psychological discord and the rapid restoration of adaptive functioning in ...

5. 10.13 Seasickness (Motion sickness)
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/10. Medical Challenges on Board)

... been conducted to prove efficacy of scopolamine in prevention of motion sickness, practical experience also supports the use in established motion sickness.   Promethazine Dosing according ...

6. 10.3 Disorders of the Skin
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/10. Medical Challenges on Board)

... time, it is essential that the skin’s moisture and lipid content is kept intact by continuous treatment with a humidifying cream. Therefore, care and prevention of relapse require patience and persisting ...

7. 10.11 Sexually transmitted diseases – STD’s
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/10. Medical Challenges on Board)

... fecal-oral contact may also be transmitted sexually.   10.11.7      Prevention of STD’s   The preventive strategies apply to all STD’s. The most effective ways to prevent sexual transmission of ...

8. 11.5 Ship noise and its effects on seafarers’ health
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/11. Maritime occupational Medicine)

... obtenus lors d’une campagne de mesures effectuée à la pêche industrielle. Xth World Congress on the prevention of occupational accidents and diseases. Canadian Center for occupational Health and Safety ...

9. 10.10 Gastrointestinal Diseases
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/10. Medical Challenges on Board)

... from government agencies and insurance companies, reports from Tele-Medical Advice Services (TMAS), and studies on passenger vessels by cruise doctors. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

10. 1 Preface
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/1. Preface)

... available, a person trained to use it and ready access to information on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease. Normally this is in the form of a manual and this is supported by international ...

11. 15.8 Distress and Abandoning Ship
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/15. Shipwreck and Survival at Sea)

... a limited period.   For prevention of catabolism and dehydration the food taken should be in the form of carbohydrate. This means avoiding eating protein unless fresh water is freely available. Fat ...

12. 15.2 Lifejackets and Flotation Devices
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/15. Shipwreck and Survival at Sea)

... Back on surface it must ensure a high freeboard with a maximum of oro-nasal clearance for prevention of surface-drowning in cold water or if the survivor is impaired by bad physical conditions. A stable ...

13. 10.2 Soft tissue and joint diseases
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/10. Medical Challenges on Board)

... by signs of inflammation. Both conditions require rest and often immobilization. The prevention of relapse it is essential to identify the cause of the disorder. Example 1: Lateral epicondylitis or "tennis ...

14. 19.9 References
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/19. Research in Maritime Medicine)

... studies. Mil Med, 2008. 173(8): p. 785-91. 6. Hansen, H.L., Surveillance of deaths on board Danish merchant ships, 1986-93: implications for prevention. Occup.Environ.Med., 1996. 53(4): p. 269-275. 7.  Kaerlev, ...

15. 19.4 Research methods
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/19. Research in Maritime Medicine)

... intended for human use. These may be used for prevention, treatment, diagnosis or for relieving symptoms of a disease and are also applicable in maritime medicine, e.g. in a trial of the efficacy of transdermal ...

16. 19 Research in maritime medicine
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/19. Research in Maritime Medicine)

... (the British navy), while until several decades later the global naval and civil fleet remained ignorant to the prevention of these serious threats to seamen. Today, we would still like to find and implement ...

17. 4.17 National Organizations with International Impact
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/4.Organisations of importance to Maritime Medicine)

Some national organizations, like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)[1] in the USA and American College of Emergency Phycisians (ACEP)[2] in the USA, are of interest to maritime physicians ...

18. 4.16 The European Center for Disease Prevention and Control - ECDC
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/4.Organisations of importance to Maritime Medicine)

Being an EU agency, the European Centre of Disease Prevention and Control is a supranational organization. Its impact, however, reaches beyond the European Union. The organization was established in ...

19. 4.4 International Organization for Migration (IOM)
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/4.Organisations of importance to Maritime Medicine)

... with IMHA, ILO, ITF, UNAIDS, ICSW and ISF, IOM embarked on mayor global project of HIV/AIDS prevention: Global Partnership on HIV and Mobile Workers in the Maritime  ...

20. 4.3 International Maritime Organization (IMO)[1]
(Textbook of Maritime Medicine/4.Organisations of importance to Maritime Medicine)

... at Sea (SOLAS) of 1974 as amended year by year, the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL) of 1973, modified by a protocol of 1978, and the International Convention ...