First Aid at Sea

First Aid At Sea provides an easy-to-access instant guide to emergency first aid for all seafarers.

The First Aid At Sea app is a clearly set out guide to emergency first aid, written by doctors who sail. The app provides rapidly accessible guidelines for dealing with medical emergencies in a small boat or yacht at sea. As well as detailing medical procedures the app also provides information on emergency communications. Everything from CPR to cuts, injuries, poisoning and broken bones is covered.

The aims of First Aid At Sea are to:

- preserve life

- prevent further harm

- relieve pain and suffering and

- deliver a live patient ashore

Based on the bestselling book First Aid At Sea by Douglas Justins and Colin Berry published by Adlard Coles Nautical. Recommended by RORC.

"Everything a seagoing First Aid Book should be...this book could save lives"

Yachts and Yachting

Features and Benefits:

Quick reference for dealing with medical emergencies at sea

Concise descriptions of medical conditions

List of treatments appropriate at sea

Advice on basic damage limitation and pain relief

Covers all the medical emergencies likely to be encountered at sea:

Contents include:

Abdominal injury

Abdominal pain

Allergies

Basic Life Support

Bleeding

Breathing difficulty

Burns

Chest compression

Chest injury

Chest pain

Choking

Collapse

Communications

Concussion

Constipation

Crush injuries

Cuts

Diabetes

Diarrhoea

Dislocations

Distress signals

Drowning

Earache

Electrocution

Epilepsy

Evacuation of boat

Examination of a casualty

Eye problems

Fever

Fingers and toes

First Aid kit

Fractures

Headache

Head injury

Heart attack

Heatstroke

Hypothermia

Injuries

Lacerations

Man overboard

Medical checklist

Neck

Nose bleed

Piles

Poisoning

Radio procedures

Recovery position

Rescue breathing

Resuscitation

Seasickness

Shock

Skin problems

Spine

Splints

Sprains

Stroke

Sudden illness

Sunburn

Toothache

Unconsciousness

Vomiting

Wounds

About the authors:

Douglas Justins (MB BS FRCA) studied medicine in Australia and became a general practioner in the Outback. He sailed non-stop from Sydney to Dover in the 1975 Financial Times Clipper Race, then in the 1979 Fastnet and the Three Peaks Race with co-author Colin Berry. He is an anaesthetist at St Thomas' Hospital in London.

Colin Berry (MB BS FRCA) completed his first circumnavigation in 1982 and his second in 1990, both times as crew member and medic aboard Whitbread Round the World yachts. He has cruised and raced and also spent time afloat as a medical officer in the Royal Navy.

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The bonus section has tips on how to deal with emergencies including: Abandon ship; Dismasting; Distress Signals; Engine Failure; Fire Fighting; Flares; Getting a tow; Helicopter rescue; Holed hull; Man overboard; Medical emergency; Mayday; Panpan; Securité.