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Onboard First Aid: Immediate Actions
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- DVD (VHS avail.)
Two videos demonstrate to maritime personnel how to stabilize the condition of an ill or injured crewmember.
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Onboard First Aid: Immediate Actions
Two videos demonstrate to maritime personnel how to stabilize the condition of an ill or injured crewmember, addressing topics such as choking, bleeding, burns, fractures, hypothermia, heat stress, seizures, diabetic emergencies, toxic exposure and more.
Onboard First Aid: Immediate Actionsis a video training course that provides vessel operators with a tool for complying with STCW requirements.
Parts 1 and 2 of the three-tape set feature medical professionals portraying shipboard personnel as they demonstrate the immediate actions required for stabilizing the condition of an ill or injured crewmember.
Part 3 is a Test cassette that allows the viewer to evaluate his or her understanding of the subject matter, as a means of boosting retention and measuring comprehension. Part 4 is a Workbook which serves as a study guide that can be issued to crew personnel. Included in the Workbook are test forms that can be used for scoring and certification of those who successfully complete the program.
Onboard First Aid: Immediate Actions is targeted at entry-level personnel. It serves as a companion to the 10-tape Maritime Medical Emergencies Video Series which demonstrates comprehensive treatment procedures and case management strategies for the injuries and illnesses that commonly occur at sea, and is intended for senior officers.
The videotapes are based on actual incidents drawn from the case files of Maritime Health Services, Inc. (MHS), a Seattle firm that has provided professional medical consultation to vessels at sea on more than 15,000 occasions.
International Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping require all shipboard personnel to be capable of undertaking an effective immediate action in response to a medical emergency.
Junior officers must meet an intermediate level of emergency medical proficiency.
Senior officers designated as persons in charge of onboard medical care must be proficient at advanced treatment procedures and case management strategies.
Basic Safety Training
Under the new rules, licensed marine personnel must demonstrate that they have successfully completed an approved training course in first aid, one of four components of the STCW requirement for Basic Safety Training (the new regulations further require that Basic Safety Training license endorsements be renewed every five years). The Maritime Medical Emergencies training products are intended to assist vessel operators in meeting the requirements in the most cost-effective fashion, by creating onboard training programs that gain Coast Guard approval.
In the words of MHS Principal Dr. Michael Brown, the inaccessibility of the open ocean makes it critical that everyone aboard a sea-going vessel be a capable first responder in a medical crisis. An emergency room physician who serves as medical consultant to vessels at sea, Brown argues that emergency medical training must be a regular component of shipboard routines.
Length: 24/22 minutes
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