The Onboard Medical Guide: First Aid and Emergency Medicine Afloat - Softcover

Gill, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0070242747 ISBN 13: 9780070242746

Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press, 1996

Synopsis

Coverage includes shock and CPR; injuries, burns, fractures; poisoning; shipboard dentistry and dermatology; drowning, hypothermia, seasickness, diving medicine; sunburn and heat illness; dangerous sea life; shipboard pediatrics and gynecology; a ship's medicine chest; and emergency radio stations and procedures. Gill, a board-certified emergency medicine specialist, has created a uniquely concise, comprehensive, and accurate guide. Quick-reference first aid procedures and a cross-referenced index get you there fast in an emergency. Lively anecdotes and quotes will amuse and instruct you in quieter times.

About this title

About the Author

Paul G. Gill, Jr., M.D. is a board-certified emergency medicine specialist and a member of the Wilderness Medical Society. His outdoor medicine column appeared for many years in Outdoor Life. Gill is author of The Onboard Medical Handbook: First Aid and Emergency Medicine Afloat. HOMETOWN: Middlebury, Vermont

From the Back Cover

Paul G. Gill, Jr., M.D., a native of Boston, Massachusetts, grew up in Stony Brook, New York, Where he first developed his love for boating and the sea. He attENDed the University of Notre Dame and the University of Alabama School of Medicine, and now practices emergency medicine in Vermont. A board-certified emergency medicine specialist, he writes a sports medicine column for Outdoor Life magazine, and spENDs most of his leisure time building boats and sailing them on Lake Champlain and on Penobscot Bay in Maine.

Edition details

• Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0070242747
• ISBN 13: 9780070242746
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 230