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Emergency First Aid for Industrial and Remote Settings

by Mohammed El-Sadi Haj Ahmed BSc (Econ) PhD, Saleh Abdulla Hessein Al-Masabi MD PhD. and Nelson Norman MD DSC

268 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #04-0448; ISBN 1-4120-2620-2; US$46.00, C$52.73, EUR37.50, £26.50

First-aid for emergencies in urban and remote work-sites. Based on course for offshore personnel in North Sea and Middle East oil companies. Also for families of such personnel and office workers.

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About the Book

This book was originally designed largely for those who work in remote places associated with an environmental hazard such as heat or cold. Since it has been used for the families left at home it also has general appeal. Basically it is a first-aid book but it is presented so that it provides an understanding of the basic nature of the various emergency situations not only to allow appropriate first-aid to be administered but also to care for the casualty for a time if evacuation from the remote place is delayed or even absent. It also trains the casualty handler to communicate an appreciation of the problem to a remote doctor so that he will be in a position to provide quality advice. The book avoids technical terms and is presented in the simple and yet detailed terms of a series of lectures. Certain important areas are thus repeated for emphasis so that a full understanding of the subject can rapidly and painlessly be acquired. It is based on the lecture material for the course which was originally part of the system for remote personnel operating in the offshore oil and gas industry in the North Sea and which was subsequently found to be equally useful for the personnel of the British Antarctic Survey operating in small parties far from base. The lecture course has also been extensively used by oil company personnel in the Middle East, particularly those who operate in lonely desert areas or offshore. The book is illustrated by clinical pictures and diagrams to show the nature of the injuries and conditions described such as burns, fractures, wounds, bleeding, eye injuries, heat illness, etc. This introduces the trainee to the types of emergency which he may be called upon to manage and helps to determine how best they should be treated in both urban and remote situations. The descriptions of such fundamental areas as the management of unconsciousness, the nature of respiratory and circulatory failure and resuscitation are also fully complimented by diagrams and photographs.

About the Authors

John Nelson Norman, MD, DSc, PhD, FRCS (Edin, Glasg.), FFOM, Finst Biol. is Emeritus Professor of Environmental Medicine at the University of Aberdeen, UK. He graduated in medicine from the University of Glasgow in 1957. Thereafter he spent the greater part of his National Service in the Antarctic Survey Station at Halley Bay and while there he developed an interest in environmental and remote medicine. He then proceeded to become an academic surgeon working in the departments of surgery at Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities. Since his main academic, surgical interests were hyperbaric medicine, hypothermia and the care of the seriously ill surgical patient he developed an immediate interest in the care of offshore industrial personnel when the North Sea offshore oil and gas industry was established. The industry had similar medical problems complicated by time and distance from medical help and a hazardous environment. He developed a system of medicine for the North Sea and subsequently for the British Antarctic Survey and other Remote work-sites. He established the British Antarctic Survey Medical Unit in Aberdeen and was its first Chief Medical Officer. The philosophy of Remote Medicine was promoted from the Institute of Environmental and Offshore Medicine at Aberdeen University and the Centre for Offshore Health at the Robert Gordon University both of which he established and directed. The first tenet of the remote medicine system was immediate care training for the population at risk and the very successful course which he designed and taught for over twenty years in Aberdeen, the Middle and Far East, the Antarctic and many other remote international sites is set out in this book. He spent his last professional five or six years as Professor of Community Medicine at the UAE University, Al-Ain, Abu Dhabi where the course was delivered to the oil and gas industry, the traffic police, non-medical University personnel and medical students, in association with the co-authors of the book who added much to the final concept.
Saleh Abdulla Hussein Al-Masabi MB. ChB, MSc PhD, DTM, MFOM. is chief medical officer of the Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Oil Operations (ADCO), UAE. He graduated in medicine from the University of Alexandria in 1984 and proceeded to acquire post graduate medical skills in the hospitals of Abu Dhabi. His main interest was undoubtedly Occupational Medicine and he entered ADCO as a trainee in occupational medicine in 1990. He was sent on various courses in general occupational and diving medicine and one of the overseas locations was Aberdeen where he came under the influence of Professor Norman and he then developed an interest in teaching and in research. Back home in the UAE he formed an academic relationship with the Department of Community Medicine at the UAE University where he worked with Professor Norman and Dr Mohammed El-Sadig in promoting first-aid training in the UAE police force and the oil industry and they developed the course further between them. His interest in industrial medical research was potentiated further and he carried out work on the heat illnesses and the epidemiology of the remote field areas of the Abu Dhabi oil companies. This resulted first in a Mastership and then a Doctorate at Aberdeen University, UK. He became Chief Medical Officer for ADCO in 1999, and Hon. Lecturer in Occupational Medicine at the Department of Community Medicine at the UAE University in the same year.
Mohammed El-Sadig Haj Ahmed BSc (Econ), PhD is an administator and scientist in the Department of Community Medicine at the UAE University, Al-Ain, Abu Dhabi. He graduated in economics at the University of Khartoum, Sudan in 1983. Thereafter he was a research assistant at Khartoum University before a spell in business as Executive Officer to the board of directors of the Sudan Shipping Line Ltd. In 1990 he was appointed academic administrator to the Department of Community Medicine of the Faculty of Medicine at the UAE University, Al-Ain, Abu Dhabi. There he not only administered the department but became involved in both teaching and the research work. He also set up the first telemedicine organisation used for the importation of teaching from UK for medical students. This was highly successful and established his interest in remote medicine and public health research. He joined Professor Norman in providing first aid courses for traffic policemen and other personnel in the UAE. He co-authored a short textbook on first-aid with Professor Norman (in Arabic) and in 1996 he entered the research field on his own as an external research student at the University of Abertay Dundee in UK. He eventually presented his thesis on the epidemiology and the economics of road traffic accidents in the UAE and this was sustained in 2002. He has continued to teach immediate care and health economics at the University and has developed collaborative projects with the Dubai Police Ambulance service and with the Remote Areas Medical Services in Aberdeen and the Accidents Research Center of Monash University in Australia.

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Preface.
The management of emergencies in remote places has always been difficult. Military medicine made considerable advances in battle casualties during the wars but little attention was paid to the problem in the civilian sector until a vast heavy industry was established in the middle of the North Sea in the 1970s. The problem was first addressed by the late Dr Colin Jones of British Petroleum and Professor Nelson Norman of Aberdeen University. At the same time Dr Max House of Memorial University, Newfoundland had identified the problem in the vast and lonely areas of Newfoundland and Labrador and was actively seeking a solution. A little later Dr Saleh Hussein Al-Masabi, Chief Medical Officer of the Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Oil operations (ADCO) examined the problem affecting personnel working both offshore and onshore in the desert oilfields of the Middle East and actively promoted solutions.
The basic problem was the time and distance which separated the casualty from the medical facilities which he may require together with the fact that remote work-sites are often associated with hazardous environmental conditions. A system of medicine emerged which did much to solve the immediate problem and the first priority was considered to be training in immediate care for the whole population at risk together with the establishment of a reliable communication system with medical and specialist authorities. This system has worked well over the years not only in vast remote, industrial operations but also in such small and isolated groups as those working on Antarctic stations and even ordinary people living in remote parts of UK.
A basic training course was established to fulfil the need and this book is based on that course. It was considered necessary for the personnel not only to be able to manage emergencies but to have sufficient depth of knowledge to understand the principles of what they were doing and also to be able to modify what they were doing according to the situation in which they found themselves. It was also necessary for the first-aider to be in a position to communicate the nature of the problem to a distant doctor in terms which he would require if he was to offer advice which was both useful and which the first-aider could carry out. This is the fundamental aim of this book.

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