[Acute Dyspnea at Sea Due to Misjudgement of Pre-existing Medical Conditions]. / Akute Luftnot auf See durch Fehleinschätzung von Vorerkrankungen.

A guest on a cruise ship must be disembarked during the voyage due to a probable malignant pleural effusion recurring after puncture and draining part of the fluid. As in this case, patients are often advised by their general practitioners or specialists to take part in an already planned cruise, although complications of existing underlying diseases cannot always be well treated in the on-board hospital. The diagnostic and therapeutic possibilities in the on-board hospital are clearly limited in many aspects compared to hospitals ashore and disembarkation is not desirable everywhere.