🔍 Key Concepts

• Standard maritime medical message codes ("M" codes) used in radiotelephony and Inmarsat for medical situations • Difference between asking for medical advice versus requesting medical assistance/evacuation • How urgency level (urgent vs distress) changes which code group you use

💭 Think About

• Ask yourself: Am I asking a doctor what to DO for the patient, or am I asking for a ship/aircraft/boat to COME and take the patient away? • Is this situation immediately life-threatening and requiring a MAYDAY, or is it very urgent but still primarily a request for professional instructions? • Which of these codes is specifically tied to advice rather than evacuation or ambulance?

✅ Before You Answer

• Identify which "MA-" code means medical ADVICE rather than evacuation or ambulance • Confirm whether the question is about urgency message content, not the radiotelephone prowords (like PAN PAN or MAYDAY) • Make sure you are picking the code that best matches: "requesting urgent medical advice" – focus on the word advice