Textbook of Maritime Medicine

1. Offshore Health - Terminology
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... specific health services on oil rigs and drilling ships. My question is for this noble scientific group: This terminology (“OFFSHORE HEALTH”) was being applied consistently to do so? ...

2. Re: 9.7 Evacuation for Medical reasons at sea (Medevac)
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... the hospital ship "Esperanza del Mar", as I stated, but also a second vessel, the "Juan de la Cosa". http://www.seg-social.es/Internet_6/Trabajadores/Trabajadoresdelmar/SanidadMaritima/MedicAsistISM/BuqueAsistMedic/index.htm How ...

3. Re: Communication problems and Radiomedico
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Dear Ana Paula Except for cruise ships, few ships have telephone in the sick bay. Most of the communication with Radio Medico is made from the bridge. In the recommendations for ship's medical facilitis ...

4. 15 Shipwreck and Survival at Sea
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5. Communication problems and Radiomedico
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Hello! I have this time some specific questions about the communication ship-radiomedico: - have you experienced many ships that have the possibility to communicate with Radiomedico from the ship's ...

6. communication problems and Radiomedico
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Hello all! I am writing an essay about intercultural aspects in communications between the Radiomedico services and ships, e.g. language difficulties, cultural barriers, etc... Some of you are or have ...

7. Re: 3 Shipping – a Global Industry - layout
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Hi Johan, Thank you for reporting the problem, a large URL broke the layout of the page (using more width than normal) - it is now fixed. Kjetil

8. Re: 3 Shipping – a Global Industry
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Takk for denne meldingen. Jeg har rettet opp rekkefølgen av artiklene. Når det gjelder skjermtilpasningen, skjer det samme hos meg.Skal undersøke saken og kommer tilbake.

9. Re: 3 Shipping – a Global Industry
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There is something with the formatting of article 3.1 that makes the page wider than my pc-screen (I´m on a small laptop). This is not a problem with the rest of the chapters. Also in the article listing ...

10. 3 Shipping – a Global Industry
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11. Re:9.14 Floating hospitals
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... ships. As far as I know, the only way to get a good picture of the location at sea of these vessels is through AMVER, in which these navy ships also partake. This is mentioned in the text, viz.: " ...

12. 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 ...

13. 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 ...

14. 9.7 Evacuation for Medical reasons at sea (Medevac)
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Dear editors, "Oh! to see one's name in print..." (Shakespeare) One remark: Bas Rikken was the main editor of this section, and I ceded my second authorship to Monica Puskeppeleit. Can you therefore ...

15. 9.14 Floating hospitals
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To sustain an increasing number of 'out of area'operations most Navies recently have implemented medical standards for their ships operating far from their estuary waters. Thus most Navy ships will carry ...

16. 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 ...

17. Re:3.1 Definitions
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... procedures or even medical technology to the specific conditions of time, space, weather etc. prevalent on board of ships, oil riggs etc. The most apparent conditions are: (non-)availability of clinical ...

18. 7 Introduction
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... us with more detailed international guidelines, that could be adopted directly by the shipping nations. Hopefully we can reach international agreement on these standards, like aviation already has ach ...

19. 13.13 Patient Management
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... the captain to send him to the clinic / hospital Some captains do not want to send their crewmembers ashore. They think the seafarer is using the complaint as an excuse to get off the ship for a few ...

20. 13.14 Cooperation with Port Health Authorities
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... Some Port Health Authorities offer full medical services; others do not have medical doctors in their team but mainly deal with issues of environmental health and ship sanitation. Frequently the local ...