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Join DAN and the Undersea Hyperbaric Medical Society for a five-day course Aug. 11-15 in beautiful Islamorada in the Florida Keys. Bring your family to the 63rd DAN Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine Course.
This course, designed primarily for physicians, emergency medical personnel, paramedics and nurses, will also appeal to instructors, divemasters and other non-medical dive related personnel.
The course curriculum will introduce the most important topics in diving and hyperbaric medicine; it will explain the physiological principles underlying clinical practice.
Wide-ranging topics include the following: diagnosis and treatment for dive-related medical disorders; common causes of recreational diving fatalities; physiological barriers to diving; technical and saturation diving; indication for hyperbaric oxygen treatment; dive computers and table theory; equipment including rebreathers and many more.
The course, held four hours daily, is certified by UHMS for a maximum of 20 AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s)TM. Special dive package also supplements the course.
Faculty members include the following:
PETER B. BENNETT, Ph.D., D.Sc. – executive director, Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society; founder and past president, Divers Alert Network; chairman emeritus, International DAN; emeritis professor, anesthesiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C.
PETAR J. DENOBLE, M.D., Ph.D. – senior research director, Divers Alert Network, Durham, N.C.
JOHN J. FREIBERGER, M.D., M.P.H. – course director; associate medical director, Divers Alert Network; assistant professor, anesthesiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C.
MICHAEL OTT, M.D. – pulmonologist/intensivist, Melbourne Internal Medicine Associates; medical director, Hyperbaric Oxygen Program, Health First Health System, Melbourne, Fla.
COURSE COORDINATOR - Cindi Easterling, M.Ed.; vice president of CME and special services, Divers Alert Network, Durham, N.C.
For immediate information, email course coordinator Cindi Easterling.
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63RD_CME_brochure.pdf 
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