Medical First Aid for officers, as well as medical first aid emergency personnel on-board.
Prerequisites
Basic safety training.
Officers also need the advanced safety training for seafarers.
Objective
The course aims to provide the knowledge and skills needed to perform best when accidents occure on-board. The course is built on STCW table A-VI/4-1 Medical First Aid.
Approved by STCW-78 with the Manila 2010 amendment.
Course content
The course covers:
- Practical first aid exercise with markers.
- Life saving first aid.
- Treatment of injuries
- CPR
- Nursing
- Acute illness
- Burns
- Broken bones
- Head, neck and back injuries
- Pshycological/psychiatric challenges on-board
- Radio Medico
- Medical emergency
- Toxic dangers on-board
Exam
Written test with multiple-choice answers.
Your practical skills will be evaluated individually according to the competency demands set out in STCW.
