The need to improve the quality of on-board medical services, both for passengers and crew members, led the medical department to carry out a training process aimed at:
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manage most of the diseases that occur on cruise ships with a view to "emergency medicine and first aid" in which the doctor/s and their teams intervene appropriately in the evaluation and subsequent management of patients referred to on-board hospitals;
- use first aid strategies characterized by an initial triage, visit, use of instrumental (ECG, Ultrasounds, X-rays) and blood chemistry examinations, treatment, observation/discharge/landing in an appropriate facility;
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adopt uniform behavioral strategies in accordance with the guidelines on the various pathologies and according to the principles of best practice;
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be able to manage indipendently/in team the main emergencies (cardiac arrest, acute myocardial infarction, stroke, acute respiratory failure, acute metabolic failure, shock, trauma, poisoning, intoxications, burns, drowning, urgent pediatric diseases, acute psychiatric events, etc.) with the aim of stabilizing patients until disembarkation in the most appropriate port on the basis of local health resources;
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provide regulatory and legislative knowledge necessary for the correct administrative management of cases.