EPO 217 - Shipboard Medical

Lab Hours: 2, Units: 1
STCW Requirement: ♦
Prerequisite(s): Senior Class Standing
Practical applications and the principles of First Aid and Medical Care. Topics include body structure and function, resuscitation techniques, and bleeding control. Shock management, burns and scalds, cold and heat effects, rescue and casualty transport, toxicological hazards, spinal injuries, fractures, dislocation and muscular injuries, radio medical advice, pharmacology, sterilization, cardiac arrest and drowning.
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