Course description
Specialist training required for maritime medical personnel. Includes advanced emergency procedures and patient care in limited medical access conditions aboard ships.
Training hours
31 h
Lecture
10 h
Exercises
IMO Model Course 1.15
Training goal
Taking actions in first aid procedures included in the training program, particularly:
- Recognizing cardiac arrest in adults
- Managing an unconscious patient
- Performing adult CPR
- Administering defibrillation
- Positioning patient in recovery position
- Controlling bleeding
- Recognizing and treating fractures
- Dressing thermal and electrical burns
- Managing patient in shock
- Recognizing and providing initial treatment for abdominal and chest conditions
- Handling suspected sexually transmitted and tropical diseases
- Performing gastric lavage
- Identifying poisoning
- Confirming death and recognizing irreversible signs of death
Requirements
Prerequisites required:
- Basic medical first aid training
- Standard medical first aid training
Certificate
Certificate confirming qualifications in maritime medical care for the sick.
