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.