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July 11, 2024 • Cruise Ship & Maritime Section
Looking for your next leadership opportunity? We have openings on our CSM officer team for the coming year.
July 10, 2024 • Cruise Ship & Maritime Section
The ACEP Section on Cruise Ship Medicine will host its annual meeting during the ACEP24 Scientific Assembly. We encourage everyone to join us in Las Vegas for the section meeting. While we are plannin...
August 30, 2021 • Cruise Ship & Maritime Section
By Benjamin M Shore, DO, FACEP Chair, Cruise Ship Medicine Section In the two decades that I have served as chief medical consultant to two different cruise lines, I have urged a cautious approach ...
By Mark Cimino MD, MBA Twenty-four hours into our two-day crossing from Australia to New Zealand, parents presented to the medical center with their 1-year-old child with complaints of crying, exces...
By Dr. Abeer Arangodan and Dr. Mildred Archbold Aches and pains can account for 50% of medical consultations seen onboard. Considering the case presentations of only crewmembers, this particular chief...
November 11, 2020
This case clearly illustrates how teams from many different departments on a cruise ship need to work together to complete a complicated medevac
November 10, 2020
Quality medical care on board cruise ships carrying more than 100 persons is enhanced by this policy resource and education paper (PREP)
Medical representatives for various cruise lines have supplied current information and special conditions or preferences for medical staff
October 10, 2013
Legionellosis (Legionnaires’ Disease, or the mild form Pontiac Fever) can be a serious illness that may occur due to exposure of passengers to Legionella spp. on cruise ships as reported in a numbe...
The International Maritime Health Association (IMHA) works for all aspects of seafarers’ health and welfare. Every two years it arranges an International Symposium on Maritime Health and the 12th one ...
October 9, 2013
We are making final preparations for the ACEP13 annual Scientific Assembly in Seattle, WA from October 14th-17th and importantly our Cruise Ship Section meeting on Monday, October 14th from 11 am to 1...
American College of Emergency Physicians
