SeaReady app · Ship & crew
Medicine chest guides
Links to the two trusted medical guides for ships and a reminder of how to reach a Radio Medical doctor. No medical advice.
Updated 2026-10-11 · SeaReady’s own words. The app changes often — if a screen looks different from this page, tell us from Help → Suggest an improvement.
What it is for
The "Medicine chest & medical guides" page is a signpost, not a doctor. It links to the two medical references trusted on board and reminds you how to reach a Radio Medical doctor. SeaReady does not give medical advice.
The two links are the "International Medical Guide for Ships (3rd edition)" from the World Health Organization, with ILO and IMO, which many flags require on board and which lists the recommended contents of the ship’s medicine chest, and the "Mariners Medico Guide (free app)" from Gard and the Norwegian Centre for Maritime and Diving Medicine, a symptom-led guide written by Radio Medical doctors that can be downloaded and used without a signal, including mental-health content.
Who can use it
Everyone, on every plan including Free. Written for the officer in charge of medical care and for any crew member who wants to know where the guides are.
Step by step
- Open "Medicine chest guides" from the Tools page.
- Read the caution box first: for a sick or injured person, contact a Radio Medical or TMAS doctor through your company procedure or the coast radio station, and in an emergency follow your distress procedures. The radio medical services are listed in the Admiralty List of Radio Signals, Volume 1.
- Tap "International Medical Guide for Ships (3rd edition)" to open the WHO library page, where the guide is free to read.
- Tap "Mariners Medico Guide (free app)" to open its website and install the app.
- Do both while the ship has a connection in port. The page’s own tip says it: download the guide and the app in port so both can be used offline at sea.
Tips
- Keep the ship’s medical officer, the medicine chest inventory and these guides together in the same place, so the person on watch at 3 a.m. does not have to search.
- The source note at the bottom of the page shows when the links were last checked.
Limits and good to know
- Links only. The guides open in the browser on the publishers’ own sites, so you need internet to open or download them; the app itself stores nothing from them.
- No medical advice, no symptom checker, no dosage information anywhere in SeaReady. For a patient, call the Radio Medical doctor.
- The medicine chest inventory and the controlled-drugs register are your own ship’s records; this page does not keep them.
Related pages
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Use it in the app
The same page sits inside SeaReady under Help → Handbook and behind the “?” in the screen’s header, and it reads offline at sea.
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