ICS International Medical Guide Action Cards: 2025 [paper]

ICS International Medical Guide for Seafarers and Fishers Action Cards

These action cards provide a quick guide to what to do first for the ten highest-risk medical incidents, including:

• ABCDE illness
• ABCDE injury
• CPR and using the defibrillator
• Breathing problems
• Shock (circulatory collapse)
• Chest pain
• Anaphylaxis and allergy
• Seizures (fits) and convulsions
• Sepsis and
• Abdominal pain

These action cards come from the ICS International Medical Guide for Seafarers and Fishers. This modern and practical medical guide has been written and reviewed by an international group of maritime medical practitioners and experts with many years’ experience of working with and training seafarers and fishers. It can be used on board all ships and fishing vessels, anywhere in the world, and in onshore safety departments, medical assistance centres and training institutions who support seafarers and fishers.

You may wish to keep these 10 action cards in your medical kit bag.  They are laminated, A5 and bound together with a small chain.

Medical Guide action cards, International Medical Guide for Seafarers and Fishers Action Cards, 1st Edition 2025, 978-1-913997-37-3