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.
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``Should be a requisite component of all boaters' safety lockers.'' (Lakeland Boating )
``Not only is it an interested read, with quotes and situations actually encountered, [this book] is an excellent comprehensive guide to medicine at sea.'' (Sailing )
``Not only is it an interested read, with quotes and situations actually encountered, [this book] is an excellent comprehensive guide to medicine at sea.'' (Sailing )
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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.
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Shamrock was running wing and wing down the Strait of Magellan before a strong northwesterly breeze when the williwaw came shrieking down out of the glacier-capped mountains of Tierra del Fuego, whipping the black waters into a frenzy, and blasting the 45-foot ketch with 80-knot winds. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
overboard pole, patient bite, survival bag, survival craft, zenith distance, compression dressing, finger sweep Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Coast Guard, Cape Horn, North Atlantic, Howard Blackburn, Nautical Almanac, Strait of Magellan, Thomas Welch, Transderm Scop, Otic Domeboro, Tierra del Fuego New!
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Shamrock was running wing and wing down the Strait of Magellan before a strong northwesterly breeze when the williwaw came shrieking down out of the glacier-capped mountains of Tierra del Fuego, whipping the black waters into a frenzy, and blasting the 45-foot ketch with 80-knot winds. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
overboard pole, patient bite, survival bag, survival craft, zenith distance, compression dressing, finger sweep Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Coast Guard, Cape Horn, North Atlantic, Howard Blackburn, Nautical Almanac, Strait of Magellan, Thomas Welch, Transderm Scop, Otic Domeboro, Tierra del Fuego New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Ancient Mariner Pb (Phoenix 60p paperbacks) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge on page 91, page 92, and page 96
- Survive the Savage Sea (Sailing Classics) by Dougal Robertson on page 88, and page 92
- The Aran Islands (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) by J. M. Synge on page 62
- Les Aventures de Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain on page 47
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Penguin Classics) by Mark Twain on page 47
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