Shipboard Medical Practice

Shipboard medical admissions during peacetime and combat support deployments.

Hospitalizations aboard aircraft carriers were examined to ascertain differences in illness type attributable to theater of operations and combat deployment status. Percentage distributions and lengths-of-stay statistics of major diagnostic categories are provided and compared between Vietnam combat support and peacetime modes of operations and between Western Pacific and Mediterranean theaters...

Shipboard Automatic Watchstander

Crew sizes in the Navy and Coast Guard continue to decrease. Optimally or minimally manned crews complete ever more complex and varied mission sets. Accordingly, crews rely on sensors and automatic operation to perform a host of duties formerly completed manually. The Non-Intrusive Load Monitor (NILM) provides a low cost, low-maintenance, rugged, easily installed tool for machinery monitoring f...

Control of Shipboard Cranes

We propose a new shipboard crane configuration for offloading cargo in open seas. We show that the “Maryland Rigging” crane of ship’s configuration, used in association with a friction control mechanism, provides a very effective method for reducing load pendulation caused by the motion of the crane in the roll direction. The effectiveness of the control technique is obtained by comparing the p...

Emergencies in Medical Practice

Medical Practice in Palestine

The first point that impresses the medical man in Palestine is the question of languages. At the last census 110 less than fifteen different mother tongues had to be put down for a group of less than 100 patients and staff, and one never could manage to get through a morning in out-patients without using at least six different languages. In medical work one comes into close touch with doctors f...