Ian Waugh - A Mariner\'s Guide to Marine Communications

Appendix VI

VI Medical Advice - CIRM message format

THE INTERNATIONAL RADIO MEDICAL CENTRE (CIRM) in Rome, Italy,

has been providing a free radio-medical service to mariners since 1935.

Some Coast Stations and Inmarsat Land Earth Stations will connect

vessels requiring medical advice to the CIRM. Others will connect you

to a doctor/hospital in their own country.

You can contact the CIRM direct by telephone at:

039 (Italy) 06-5923 33112; by fax on 039 (Italy) 06 5923 333;

or by telex on 043 (Italy) 612068 CIRM I.

Whether you are connected to the CIRM or another medical centre,

the doctor will want to know specific information about the vesseVpatient.

The following list is based on the information to be included in a

request for medical advice from CIRM (more about the CIRM from

http://www.cirm.it) and can usefully be used when requesting medical advice

from any source.

Vessel name Radio callsign Inmarsat ID

Coast station (or) Inmarsat - AORW/AORE/IORlPOR

Position of vessel Port of Departure

Destination port ....................... ETA Route/speed

Patient name Nationality

Age Male/female

Patient Symptoms

Location/type of pain
Accident location/cause (if applicable)
Information about breathing

Pulse rate Temperature

Patient's case history

Treatment/medicines already administered

Medicines available onboard

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Blood pressure