Description

For many sailors, Marine Medicine has been a trusted staple of emergency first-aid packages sold worldwide. This comprehensive marine references is available to any boater, paddler, surfer, or diver who ventures out to the sea.
Completely revised and update by Dr Michael E Jacobs and Dr Eric A Weiss, two nationally recognised experts in emergency medicine, this new 2nd edition covers everything you need to know to stay safe on the water. They include CPR, shock, fractures and sprains, head, eye, and dental injuries, hazardous marine life, submersion injuries, hypothermia, cuts and burns, heat illnesses, survival and health in a life raft, marine communications, evacuations at sea, parasites and travel diseases, and much much more.