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Sponsored by Divers Alert Network and the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society, the 62nd Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine Course is set for May 3-10 at the Brac Reef Resort on Cayman Brac in the British West Indies.
This six-day course is designed primarily for physicians, emergency medical personnel, paramedics and nurses, but instructors, divemasters and other nonmedical dive-related personnel might also find the course of value.
The goals of the course are to provide the facts relevant to understanding the management of dive accidents, especially those bearing on the basic physics and physiology, and the subsequent treatment methods available; to provide an opportunity for DAN Preferred Provider Network and referral clinicians to update their knowledge and skills in medical management aspects; and to allow a forum for discussion of dive-related medical management problems.
Through lectures, case presentations, printed support materials and both formal and informal question-and-answer sessions with the faculty, attendees should:
- have better knowledge of evolving clinical practice information related to basic science, epidemiology and new developments in dysbaric diving injuries; medical care in austere environments;
- be able to discuss the differential diagnosis of dive accidents; Hyperbaric (HBO) chambers and the differences between monoplace and multiplace; diving myths; human exposure to hypo and hyperthermia;
- be able to discuss and apply related physics and physiological facts relevant to nitrogen narcosis, oxygen toxicity and hypercarbia in diving; drowning; carbon monoxide poisoning; breathhold diving;
- enhance their technical information on technical diving and rebreathers; evaluation and proper use of dive computers; pathophysiology and treatment protocols of HBO therapy; physiology of extreme environments;
- be able to evaluate patients’ medical fitness to dive, including ENT aspects of IEBT, perilymph fistulas and IEDCS;
- be able to describe and discuss case histories of dive accidents and treatment; “off label” uses of HBO;
- be familiar with marine toxins and venoms and their implications for aquatic injuries; and
- bring to their patients and accident victims an updated perspective for better treatment.
Two sessions will be devoted to hotline and case histories drawn from DAN records as well as from the faculty's own treatment files. Included in these case sessions will be dive accident management and subsequent treatment. All sessions, however, will provide an excellent opportunity for faculty-participant interaction.
FACULTY
GUY de LISLE DEAR, MA, MB, BChir, FRCA — medical consultant, Divers Alert Network; associate professor, anesthesiology and pediatrics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C.
JOHN J. FREIBERGER, MD, MPH — course director, medical consultant, Divers Alert Network; assistant professor, anesthesiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C.
TOM S. NEUMAN, MD, FACP, FACPM — emeritus professor of medicine, University of California, San Diego, Calif.
LINDELL WEAVER, MD — medical director, Hyperbaric Medicine; co-director, Shock, Trauma, Respiratory ICU, LDS Hospital; professor of medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah; SW regional coordinator, Divers Alert Network.
Course Coordinator — Cindi Easterling, M.Ed., vice president, Continuing Medical Education and Special Services, Divers Alert Network, Durham, N.C.
Contact: Cindi Easterling
Phone: +1-919-684-2948 ext. 610
Fax: +1-919-493-3456
Email: ceasterling@dan.duke.edu
For a course brochure or to download a registration form, click here.
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