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First Aid At Sea

First Aid At Sea

 eBook, Published by Bloomsbury Academic/Specialist UK   (19 July 2012)

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Book description

This highly popular guide to emergency first aid at sea has been updated throughout. A bestseller for many years, it has been updated for this new edition with fresh artwork and sturdier pages to withstand the harsh marine environment. Its handy features are:



  • Wiro binding makes the pages easy to turn and enables the book to lie flat
  • Lamination means book is water resistant and wipe clean
  • A colour-coded thumb index to emergencies for quick reference

'Provides rapidly accessible guidelines for dealing with medical emergencies in a small boat or yacht at sea.' Nautical Magazine


'A highly practical on-board emergency tool written by doctors who sail.' Yachting Monthly

Douglas Justins is an anaesthetist at St Thomas Hospital, London. Colin Berry, also an anaesthetist, is an accomplished yachtsman, having crewed and been the medic in a Whitbread Round the World Yacht; he has also cruised and raced and served as a medical officer in the Royal Navy.